Firebug

During the demo of Charle’s Babbage’s Difference Engine #2 at the Computer History Museum, a docent turns a large hand crank to compute values of a 7th order polynomial by divided differences and print the results. After the demo I noticed another crank on the opposite end of the machine, awkwardly positioned near the ground: jjb: [...]

Some ideas for Firebug beyond Firebug 1.6 and 1.7: Javascript edit and go: Currently you can edit the DOM values, CSS rules, and HTML elements and attributes. But you can’t edit the Javascript. So JS developers miss out on the quick-let’s-just-see ... [More] model so popular and powerful for other users of Firebug. Automatic or Query-based Logging: Now we [...] [Less]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a8; it includes 6 bug fixes. Steve Roussey and Jan Odvarko struggled for a long time and they finally solved Issue 2788: Script panel files get truncated.  The symptom was long script files being truncated.  First it was a while to get a test case; then quickly we determined that the file lines [...]

The third anniversary of my first Firebug contribution is coming up, so it’s time for a little reflection and dreaming. We’ve come along way since Joe Hewitt unleashed Firebug 1.0.  Arriving at the start of the Web 2.0 revolution, Firebug helped shift people from thinking Web 2.0 was a fad to realizing Web apps can be [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.5.3. This release fixes four issues we found (or created ) in Firebug 1.5.2. In particular this release works around a large memory leak.  Special thanks to ben.amada for putting together the test case that helped us ... [More] track this down. We will update addon.mozilla.org Firebug users  later today. jjb Please followup in the newsgroup. [Less]

getfirebug.com has Chromebug 1.6a7 and Firebug 1.6a7. Yes, I know we just had Firebug 1.6a6. But Chromebug had one problem left to fix: the context did not restore correctly after restarting. After working all afternoon I tracked it down to a line in Firebug. Plus the Firebug command line in 1.6a6 was broken if you used NoScript. [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a6. It has fixes for 13 bugs. Notable changes: Support for private browsing mode, Open-in-new-window Firebug now looks like in-browser firebug, max version 3.6 since we are not testing on 3.7, work around for memory ... [More] leaks discovered in Firebug 1.5.2 The memory leak fix, console.dir() bug fix and perhaps one more will be merged in to 1.5 [...] [Less]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.5.2.  It will be pushed as an update to users who have installed Firebug from addons.mozilla.org. This version fixes bugs we discovered after releasing 1.5.0. Some other small improvements: The break on next button moved from the main toolbar to the panel toolbar. Physically this is not a lot of distance but it [...]

Our paper Dynamic and Graphical Web Page Breakpoints was accepted as a technical paper for WWW2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 26-30. We updated the paper with the latest 1.6/1.5.1 screen shots. Most of these images are also in the breakpoints demo page. A few images from the demo did not make it into the [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.5X.1b2 (the tracing version) and Firebug 1.5.1b2 (essential what will be 1.5.1 when we release it to addons.mozilla.org). This release has most of the bug fixes described in links from the blog post for Firebug 1.6a5. Linux 64 bit users with Firefox 3.5.7 or older please take note: upgrade to Firefox 3.5.8 or 3.6 [...]