Firebug

Pedro Simonetti Garcia has been leading the Firebug Lite development effort and helping us plan for a merger of Firebug Lite and part of the Firebug for Firefox code base. He will be using this blog to post information about Firebug Lite releases and related issues. jjb

getfirebug.com has a new beta release of Firebug Lite 1.3.1b1. Lite is the Firebug for IE, Safari, Chrome, and Opera. Look for the Firebug icon in the lower corner of the web page, it’s minimized to start. Some of the key changes by Pedro Simonetti Garcia: Many improvements to the ‘inline’ editor used for CSS and HTML, [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6X.0a16, with a change the maxVersion so Firebug will install in Firefox 4.0b1.  Just to set expectations, some platform bugs scheduled for 4.0b2 will prevent Firebug from working completely on Firefox 4.0b1. I also was not able to run our test suite on 4.0b1 because the extensions we use for testing would [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6X.0a15, another quick bug-fix release so we can get a decent version for alpha testers to give us feedback. jjb Please post feedback on the newsgroup.

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6X.0a14. It has the last of the features for Firebug 1.6: Command line available on all panels Command line completion rewrite: popup completion list, you can click on the list to select if you like. Max of 40 entries ... [More] preview-with-select, shows up blue, erased if you type, accepted if you type any non-identifier character tab-cycles (like [...] [Less]

getfirebug.com has the final demo web page for our Velocity demo.  We are in the Lightning Demo session at 10:40am on Wednesday.  If you want to reproduce the demos you will need to install the extensions. jjb Please post comments in the newsgroup.

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6X.0a13 with couple of features that are still incomplete but with a fix for issue 3017 which broke JS debugging. Reimplement command line and console (again), avoiding elements and attributes in the page. Popup ... [More] completion on command line Improved presentation of the scope chain in the Script panel Watch side panel Show the prototype, constructor, and [...] [Less]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6X.0a12. Just one more alpha to go then its Beta time! Feature work: SVG pretty print in the net panel (contribution from Sebasitan  Zartner) save and restore error breakpoints Script panel file list has auto scroll ... [More] button and shows filtering text Lots of locale updates Internal source refactoring work: Panel activation source refactoring (prep for Firebug 1.7) convert all Firebug [...] [Less]

There’s a now a new way to learn about Firebug: “Firebug 1.5: Editing, Debugging, and Monitoring Web Pages,” by Chandan Luthra and Deepak Mittal, published by Packt Publishing.  This book examines Firebug features in a straight-forward, easy-to-ready ... [More] manner, including lots of annotated screen shots and examples. Luthra and Mittal go beyond the basics to survey [...] [Less]

Pedro Simonetti Garcia announces the release of Firebug Lite 1.3.0!  This in-page version of the Firebug concept offers many of the Firebug features popular in Firebug for Firefox, but it works in many browsers.  The  new release improves the user ... [More] interface, deepens the implementation of CSS support, and improves the inspector and console panel. With 1.3 [...] [Less]