31 August 2010 | 10:00 pm
getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.7a1, our first release of our new branch for Firebug. We have big plans for 1.7, but until we have completed Firebug 1.6.0, our 1.7 branch allows us to check out fixes to 1.6 bugs and to add small features we may not want on 1.6 because they are riskier. The first [...]
24 August 2010 | 9:05 pm
Finally! getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6b1! All of our tests pass on Firefox 3.6.9pre, a nightly build of the upcoming Firefox 3.6.9. Six tests fail on Firefox 4.0b4, because of known issues in the Firefox beta release. The last feature added to 1.6 was a Console panel option, Show Completion List Popup.This is on by default, [...]
18 August 2010 | 7:07 pm
getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a20. All tests pass on Firefox 3.6.9. We plan 1.6b1 for early next week in conjunction with Firefox 4.0b4 which looks like it will work for everything except AJAX debugging. This release includes a preference you can set via about:config to disable the popup completion dialog, extensions.firebug.commandLineShowCompleterPopup. We will disable the popup [...]
10 August 2010 | 9:37 pm
getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a19, the stalling-and-blaming-FF4b3 release. We have some bugs to fix before b1, but we want to get existing fixes out. And we want to evaluate 1.6 on FF4.0, but we have to wait for 4.0b4 for that. Plus it’s summer here….. Display link to knownissues page if FF4.0 Accessibility updates, esp around [...]
23 July 2010 | 4:06 pm
getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a18, the don’t-plan-beta-releases-in-summer release. The major new feature here is ‘switch to default locale‘, support for en-US user interface labels even if you are running on a localized version of Firefox. 12 more bugs fixed. All of our tests pass on Firefox 3.6.8, so we are hoping that the Firebug automatic testbot [...]
14 July 2010 | 10:44 pm
getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a17. We’re aiming for b1 next week, and this time we mean it! New in this release: First run page comes up on install or update. Removed all the .DTD files, no more entity based localization. Console panel filtering buttons (error, warning, info, debug). Stack side panel for Script panel shows function [...]
2 July 2010 | 12:27 am
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 [...]
30 June 2010 | 4:38 am
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 [...]
28 June 2010 | 8:48 pm
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.
25 June 2010 | 11:05 pm
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 preview-with-select, shows up blue, erased if you type, accepted if you type any [...]
