Firebug

On January 12th, 2006 I released the first public version of a thing called Firebug with this description: This is a very early release - the code is only a few days old. Beware of the leopard. One year and twelve days later I am happy to announce that the leopard’s growl has been quieted [...]

I promised myself I wouldn’t add any more features to 1.0, but with the freshly posted Beta 9 I broke that promise to restore a feature from version 0.4 which many users have missed. The Style tab now allows you to show the computed style of an element instead of the list of cascaded [...]

The latest issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal contains an article that I wrote giving a high level overview of Firebug. It might just be a better introduction to Firebug than anything I’ve written before, so if you are trying convince your co-workers to use Firebug, this could be a good place to point them [...]

The latest beta of Firebug (b8) is what I would consider a “release candidate”. That means that while there are still plenty of bugs in the queue, there are no longer any that I would deem catastrophic. I would consider making this the final release, unless I hear any objections. So, if there are any bugs [...]

The most recent beta of Firebug contains a number of localizations, and there are more on the way. At first, I was elated to have the opportunity to provide Firebug in different languages, but it’s looking like this might not be a good idea. Many users have been asking for the English version [...]

Tonight I released the fifth Firebug beta. In addition to a bunch of important bug fixes, this beta is the last one that you’ll have to install manually. From now on, Firebug will be updated automatically by Firefox when I release a new beta. I believe Firefox only checks for updates when you restart [...]

If you’ve installed the Firebug 1.0 beta in the last week, I’d recommend you check the release notes to see what’s new in the latest beta (4) . It has a number of important bug fixes and new features. The most critical bug fix is one that broke XMLHttpRequests on some websites, including Google Reader. [...]