Firebug

Since “inspect” is a core and widely used Firebug feature, I wanted to give an update on its status and plans. The short version: We think Firebug 1.5Xa21 has most reliable inspect ever (esp. on FF 3.5) and we have an even better one in the pipeline. Some details now. There are 4 versions of the inspect [...]

Ok finally we are back on track: getfirebug.com has firebug 1.5x.0a21. The hangup was a cluster of issues around running our FBTests. This release is tested on Firefox 3.5.2 against https://getfirebug.com/tests/content rather than an internal ... [More] Javascript server.  We need this to test on Firefox 3.6, but it’s also more like real web testing, and its [...] [Less]

The first Firebug feature I worked on was a whopper: eval() debugging.  One of the challenges is how to name the source code buffer. By default Firefox names the eval() buffer using the containing filename. This is a disaster:  it’s the debugger ... [More] equivalent of overstrike: eval functions overlap orginal functions. Coming up with an alternative is not [...] [Less]

The Google Code project Firebug uses now supports a feed of SVN changes: Subversion commits to project fbug on Google Code. Ok, I know, not that exciting. But people have asked it. jjb Please post followups to the newsgroup.

mchung, one of our hard-working Firebug users, just uncovered a problem that I think hit many users: If you enter Firefox’s Private Browsing Mode, then Firebug 1.4 will not stay open on reload or tab switching. (See Issue 2011: Firebug console does not stay open when navigating between tabs). Unfortunately when people report [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.4.2, an incremental update on Firebug 1.4.1 with these fixes: Issue 2114: E4X objects can no longer be inspected in 1.4.0 a11y (Accessibiltiy) support for panel search in CSS, DOM and script panels Issue 2105: POST Data not fully viewable if a parameter string is wider the the screen Issue [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.4.1, an update of Firebug 1.4 with many bug fixes. While we don’t have the resources to create a proper change log for the complete bug list, a close approximation include the fixes on the 1.5 branch starting with 1.5a16 ... [More] and including 1.5a20. Those changes are described in these blog posts: 1.5a20 1.5a19 1.5a18 1.5a17 1.5a16 has [...] [Less]

getfirebug.com has released Firebug 1.2b3 Bug fixes for issues 736, 750, 256, 734, 707, 709, 56, 455, 623. See the release notes. For follow ups use the newsgroup; for bug reports use the issues list.

getfirebug.com has released Firebug 1.2b2 In this release we are trying to address the problems of enabling Firebug that users raised with 1.2b0. We now include the console as a disabled-by-default panel and Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko has implemented a multi-panel enablement. We’ve also worked on the default settings and text to try to make the [...]

After six months of work, and just in time for Firefox 3.0, Firebug 1.2 is out in beta! The theme of this release was performance (ok, partly to make up for performance issues in Firebug 1.1).We did this through a combination of changing the user interface and reworking code. One change you will see right away: there [...]