Firebug

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.7.1b2 + Chromebug 1.7.1b2 This the last beta before final 1.7.1 and also last maintenance release for 1.7 branch. We are currently fully focused on Firebug 1.8 (in alpha phase) that will be ready for Firebug 5.0 (Aurora). The final 1.7.1 will follow in 1-2 weeks. This release fixes 8 issues and [...]

Most Web developers write for all Web browsers, but their development tools only work on one browser. To the extent that browsers are standard, this works out.  Except when it doesn’t. Then you are stuck trying to use the unfamiliar development tools in another browser. Moreover, some browsers have better or different support for development [...]

Tired of ?() or anonymous in your call stack in Firebug. Me too! Fortunately Salman Mirghasemi has a solution: a new algorithm for Naming Anonymous JavaScript Functions detailed in a paper by Salman, John J. Barton (that’s me), and Prof. Claude Petitpierre submitted to Splash/Wavefront 2011. A few key points from the paper: Among the [...]

.separators LI { padding-bottom: 20px; } getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.8a2 + Chromebug 1.8a2 (compatible with Firefox 5 – Aurora) This release fixes 25 issues and all our automated tests pass. New Features Contents of the command line and command editor is now persistent across reloads (issue 4087) Height of HTML preview in the Net panel [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.7.1b1 + Chromebug 1.7.1b1 We have collected all feedback since 1.7 release and fixed several issues. Some highlights: A message about known issues with Firefox is gone (issue 4287) OS X uses appropriate icons again – not those for Windows (issue 4295) AJAX requests displayed in the Console show the proper line [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.8a1 + Chromebug 1.8a1 Since Firebug 1.7 has been released we also started 1.8 branch alpha channel. There are couple of significant changes that might be interesting especially for Firebug (extensions) developers. Also ... [More] note that this version fixes 10 issues. We started using asynchronous modules (see more about AMD) in Firebug internal [...] [Less]

Firebug Lite 1.3.2 is finally out and it comes with important fixes and enhancements! Check the Firebug Lite page for installation details of the the cross-browser version. Or, if you are a Google Chrome user, check the Firebug Lite for Google Chrome page. This release fixes 6 issues: 4 bugs and 2 enhancements. There’s also [...]

After eleven alphas and four betas Firebug Working Group (FWG) is proud to declare victory and release the final Firebug 1.7.0! Of course also Chromebug 1.7.0 is available. This version fixes three bugs reported since the last beta. The main goal of Firebug 1.7 has been full compatibility with Firefox 4 (released tomorrow!). However there [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.7b3 + Chromebug 1.7b3. We have got couple of bug reports since yesterday and as we managed to quickly fix them we also decided to yet release b3 for our awesome beta testers! CSS Properties in the Style side-panel can be disabled/enabled again (issue 4227) JavaScript object are properly logged in the [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.7b2 + Chromebug 1.7b12! We have fixed 10 issues in this release. The most noticeable change is probably break notification UI (issue 4144). Not only the message doesn’t take so much space and so, more actual source code is visible, but it also nicely teaches the user about how to get it [...]