Firebug Releases
Four Different Firebug Release Streams
The stable release is on addons.mozilla.org
and is linked from the front page.
If you install from addons.mozilla.org, you will be updated only when a new stable release is available.
The latest release is on getfirebug.com (this page). If you install from this site you will be updated
incrementally to the latest usable versions: 1.2.0, 1.2.1b1, 1.2.1b2, 1.3b1, ....
If you want to get on a early release stream, install the alpha versions. These will update as we make progress,
1.3.0a1, 1.3.0a2, ..., 1.3.0b1,....
Finally Firebug Lite for non-Firefox browsers is distributed as files or bookmarklets.
Firebug 1.2 - Current Release
Recommended for Firefox 3 and Firefox 2. Firebug 1.2 (stable) focuses on performance improvements and support for Firefox 3. 1.2 release notes
Older and beta versions of Firebug 1.2.* are also available, either the end-user versions or the versions with tracing enabled. To use tracing, run firefox from the operating system command line, and set the tracing options on the FBTrace panel.
Firebug 1.3 - Beta
New Features:
- Net panel re-implemented, more function, no more double loads (Requires Firefox 3.0.4+)
- Script panel rendering much faster for large Javascript files
- Scope chain in Watches panel when stopped on breakpoint
- Console/Command line re-implemented to avoid some undefined console problems
- Tracing console added
- New locales and better locale support
Open Firebug Tracing from the Firebug menu on the upper left corner.
Firebug 1.4 - Alpha
The preliminary plan for 1.4 focuses on testing (of and by Firebug) and support for extensions (internal hooks and
external testing infrastructure).
1.4 release notes
Pick either the end-user versions or the
versions with tracing enabled. We encourage early adopters to run the tracing version.
To use tracing use Open Firebug Tracing from the Firebug menu on the upper left corner.
ChromeBug - Alpha
ChromeBug is Firebug for Firefox extensions.
- Requires Firebug 1.4.
- Works with Chromelist.
- Works on Firefox 3.0 Only (not 3.1 yet)
- To run chromebug:
firefox.exe -chrome chrome://chromebug/content/chromebug.xul -firefox - Currently Inspect works reliably (if you are just a bit patient), Javascript debugging works a lot of the time. Comments welcome.
Firebug Source
Firebug open source has a BSD-style license. See the readme.txt for build instructions.