Firebug

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6X.0a11. This release is dedicated to Sebasitan Zartner who recently joined the Firebug Working Group and has been working on our bug list. Honza implemented console.table so source like this: var family = {}; ... [More] family.header = ["First", "Last", "Age", "Desc"]; family.mother = new Person("Susan", "Doyle", 32); family.father = new Person("John", "Doyle", 33); family.daughter = new Person("Lily", "Doyle", [...] [Less]

Firebug 1.5.4 has been available on getfirebug.com for a while and since we have received only positive feedback, it’s now available on addons.mozilla.org too. This minor update fixes two annoying bugs. One is related to script truncation problem and ... [More] the other to an options menu (the mini drop down menu available for the selected panel tab). Special [...] [Less]

We’ll be showing a quick Firebug demo at Velocity again this year. We are on Wed. morning June 23.  I’ll try to highlight a couple of new things from the Net panel and the new breakpoints, using break on XHR for the example. Lightning Demos Andreas Grabner (dynaTrace Software), John J. Barton (IBM), Stoyan Stefanov [...]

On Thursday Apr. 28 Jan Odvarko (Honza) and I presented our paper “Dynamic and Graphical Web Page Breakpoints” at WWW 2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. These features were implemented in Firebug 1.2 through 1.5.  The HTML slides + demo we presented are now on-line. Our talk went smoothly, with Honza explaining the demos while I [...]

getfirebug.com has Chromebug 1.6a10, the Firefox extension debugger we use for Firebug. Breakpoints saved between runs Filter simplified and only applies to Files list now Back/Forward navigation as in Firebug 1.6a10 Extensions panel added When you ... [More] stop on a breakpoint all nsIDOMWindows have event suppression. Panels, contexts remember their last settings between sessions. Please note Use Firebug 1.6a10 with Chromebug 1.6a10 Don’t install jetpack [...] [Less]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a10. This release has some new features: Back/Forward buttons keyed to Control-Shift Left,Right arrows Breakpoints saved across Firefox sessions, Font changes in the command line A more complete list is tagged ... [More] fixed-1.6a10 in the bug list. Most of our time has been going into two new projects, the Swarm tester to give certified tested collections of Firebug [...] [Less]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.5.4.  It has three differences from 1.5.3: Issue 2788: Script panel files get truncated Issue 2942: Style tab loses its options A fix for script truncation related to break-on-error This version will be distributed to addons.mozilla.org users in about a week. jjb Please post followup comments on the newsgroup

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6Xa9. Most of our time is now going into new features for 1.6: Swarms: Certified Extension Installer. This is a digitally signed, multiple-extension collection tested as together. Still a couple of weeks of work left. ... [More] Memorybug: leveraging Dion Almer and Atul Varma’s memory analyzer for Firebug. Looks very promising, also a couple of more weeks. (2548) [...] [Less]

Alix Franquet from Mozilla just announced a survey on Firefox 3.6 and Firebug 1.5. Only one page, ten questions, but one of the questions allows you to say if you would recommend Firebug 1.5. I hope you will! Please take the survey now. jjb

In case you missed it, Kevin Decker has released Firediff 1.0, a change tracker for Firebug: Lots of new features: Revert Changes Save Snapshot Save Diff Document Formatters Search Activation Data Handling Improvements Style attribute change handling More details on his Web site. jjb Please post comments on the newsgroup.