alternative to firefox (firebug) for developers

Hi I am big fan of firebug and firefox. Cant imagine development without them. But the problem is end of the day firefox heaps up to 1GB of ram. I wish to see if there is an alternative. I know chrome exists but I didnt find it so comforta开发者_Python百科ble.

Is it (chrome) really worth to learn from scratch

P.S. If there exists a Question already , Please direct me there. Alternative to firefox !!

Using Chrome's developer tools is almost as good as Firebug, in fact Safari has the same Developer Tools (Apple developed those tools which Chrome incorporated). Firebug is definitely superior. The errors it reports are more verbose and accurate, and it seems to be a little better suited to dealing with certain things, like response from $.ajax() and more. Chrome can show you the response and the parameters sent and what not, but Firebug is just structure in a more logical, user-friendly way.

At the end of the day, for most web development tasks, Chrome Developer Tools is suited, and the CSS inspector is almost as good as Firebug's but for large scale projects I still revert to Firebug when I am stuck.