Firebug

Ok you Javascript hot shots,  here is a two question quiz: What does the error message “XML filter is applied to non-XML value {}” mean? What does this Javascript statement do: window.("bar"); ? For the first question you may use Google to search; for the second question you may use the Firebug command line. If you find [...]

Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko has posted his slides from his Firebug talk at EU MozCamp 2009. Includes good introduction to features of our upcoming Firebug 1.5. jjb Please post followups to the newsgroup.

getfirebug.com has released Firebug 1.5a25, another feature-addition release.  We are now pushing to finish the 1.5 features so we can get b1 out around the time of Firefox 3.6b1.All of the tests  pass on FF 3.5.3 except the new ones for features not-yet-complete. Two cases fail on FF 3.7, one due to changes in the [...]

Honza and I have been working on a new Event panel for Firebug, based on the work by Olli “smaug” Pettay and the Firefox team over on Bug 448602. The events panel will list all of the event handlers on the page grouped by event type. For each event type you can open up to [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.5X.0a24. All tests pass on Firefox 3.5.2; one failure on Firefox 3.7 nightly that we are looking into. This version introduces support for the network activity observer added by Firefox in bugzilla 488270. This will lead ... [More] to much more accurate network event timing, but it requires Firefox 3.7. Also included is an early version [...] [Less]

I fought another javascript.options.strict problem: Issue 2288: FB hangs and raises CPU to 100% due to getStyleSheetByHref In case you don’t know, javascript.options.strict is supposed to warn you about problems in your code.  Unfortunately it ... [More] also warns you about non-problems in you code.  In the particular case above, this line of Firebug [...] [Less]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.4.3b1, a test release of what will likely be the end of the 1.4 line (the tracing version, 1.4X.3b1 should be out tomorrow). This release fixes one major bug in activation: sometimes Firebug will fail to  remember a site should be open or it will fail to remember a site should be closed.  [...]

getfirebug.com has released Firebug 1.5a23. We did a quick cycle to update 1.5a22 which failed a couple of tests. This release uses a faster algorithm for determining the executable line numbers so the green highlights on the Script panel should show faster on pages with very large Javascript files. Issue 1881: More [...]

getfirebug.com has released Firebug 1.5a22. The version fails three tests (console/1693 POST gets 500 from server, net/2221, non-english characters, and netPanelSearch).  I believe the first two are a config problem on getfirebug.com. I have no ... [More] excuse for the third one other than it’s Friday afternoon and we’ve been trying to get this version out for [...] [Less]

I spent the day looking into Issue 2187: firebug causes memory leaks I still don’t know if there is a memory leak (or even how to find it if there is), but I sure found a problem. When Firebug’s Error module is active and we load gmail.com, it takes about 90 sec [...]