Firebug 1.10 Release Notes

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Latest revision as of 07:40, 18 January 2013

[edit] Download Sites

• Mozilla Addons Firebug page
• getfirebug.com

[edit] Blog posts

• Firebug 1.10 announcement
• Firebug 1.10 Feature Highlights

[edit] Overview of Firebug 1.10

• Firebug Roadmap 1.10

[edit] Features and changes

[edit] Console and Command Line

• Open AJAX response in a new tab
• The Command Editor uses Orion, allowing syntax highlighting
• monitorEvents() and unmonitorEvents() work like in Chrome allowing event groups and arrays with of events
• Completion List Popup can be opened via Ctrl/⌘+Space
• Page Up / Up, Home, End and mouse wheel can be used to scroll the Completion List Popup
• Case-insensitive auto-completion for Command Line
• Better default completions
• help command added
• Selections in Command Editor are executed
• Cookie events display control in Console Panel

[edit] HTML

• Three display methods for entities
• URLs can be opened in a new tab

[edit] Style

• Added option to jump from the usage of a web font to its declaration
• Copying a selection only copies the styles
• Pseudo-classes are persistently locked
• :focus can be locked in Style Side Panel

[edit] Computed

• Implemented style tracing
• User agent styles can be hidden
• Infotips are shown for colors, images, etc.
• Scrolling is persisted
• Added smart scrolling for when a style or style group is expanded

[edit] CSS

• CSS rules can be deleted
• Up/Down keys can in-/decrease numeric values in strings
• Values of hex, rgba and hsla colors can be changed using Up/Down keys
• Rules other than style rules can be inspected
• @charset rules are displayed
• @import rule media queries are displayed and can be edited
• Auto-completion picks up font names used inside a page
• Added auto-completion for CSS selectors
• Auto-completion works at the start of expressions
• @namespace rules are displayed
• Auto-completion suggestions are not repeated in shorthand properties
• Color format display can be changed
• Units will be added when changing 0 value with Up/Down key
• Dispatch event on property name change
• Improved auto-completion for CSS functions
• Better default completions for specific values

[edit] Script

• Removed Show chrome sources
• Breakpoint condition editor supports auto-completion

[edit] Watch

• Auto-completion while entering an expression

[edit] Breakpoints

• Breakpoints categories can be folded

[edit] DOM

• CSS rules have an improved display
• Inspector works with DOM panel
• Editing of read-only values is prevented

[edit] Net

• New onResponseHeaders API
• Normal requests and different kinds of cache requests can be destinguished better
• Request parameters can be copied

[edit] Cookies

• Integrated Firecookie
• Raw value of cookies is displayed

[edit] Inspector

• Built-in inspector can be removed from context menu

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Firebug is restart-less
• Delayed loading of modules
• Shortcut to deactivate Firebug can be changed
• A page can be refreshed via keyboard shortcuts while the detached Firebug window is focused
• All options inside Firebug have descriptive tooltips
• New API for extending Firebug toolbars
• Added link to extensions page to Firebug Menu
• Auto-completion respects user's chosen case
• Help key can be rebound
• Break On ... has a shortcut (Ctrl/⌘+Alt+B)
• Firebug UI can be opened from Firefox Command Line
• First-run page is shown immediately after installing Firebug
• Better wiki page for F1
• Improved display of Start Button tooltip
• New preference to disable Orion

You can also have a look at the list of all enhancements of Firebug 1.10.

[edit] Bug fixes

• Scroll position in Script panel is retained after XHR
• Tab scroll arrows do not appear anymore
• Auto-completion for variables in catch block also work under Linux
• Up/Down key works correctly for fonts defined in CSS
• Multi-line console messages can be copied
• Quotes can be entered into the style attribute
• Pasting multi-line messages into the Command Line Popup works correctly
• Workaround for Firefox bug causing problems in Linux and Mac OS
• Removed the misplaced context menu option Edit Element Style... from the context menu of the Computed Side Panel
• Fixed option Enable JavaScript and Refresh
• ⌘ + W on Mac OS works again as expected
• Break On This Error appears again inside the context menu of JS error messages
• Fixed display problem of search options panel
• Detached Firebug receives focus when an element is inspected
• Fallback for Command Editor for the case the Orion editor is not present
• Clicking on computed styles in Console Panel inspects them in DOM Panel
• Deactivating or minimizing Firebug focuses the browser window
• Inspecting an element via the context menu when Firebug is not loaded yet works
• Introduced new option extensions.firebug.preferJSDSourceLinks, which controls whether the Console Panel uses JSD to return the source links
• Fixed SourceEditor not being defined in SeaMonkey
• Side panels can be unregistered properly
• Obsolete prefixed CSS is replaced
• CSS inside an embedded SVG shows up inside the CSS Panel
• The Script Panel doesn't take over Firebug anymore
• The Script Panel doesn't jump to another script anymore on timeout
• Shortcuts are also working when Firebug was not activated before
• Activation options are displayed correctly for the different Firebug states
• Interference with Firefox internal shortcuts was corrected
• Display of Style Side Panel doesn't fail anymore on invalid character in strings
• HTML mutation breaks also work without having the HTML Panel selected
• HTMLCollections are displayed correctly when the script execution is stopped
• Array indices are sorted numerically instead of alphabetically
• HTML Panel gets updated when nodes are changed in other panels
• Break On Mutation also works when the HTML Panel is not selected
• displayName is used in the Profiler
• BR() isn't causing problems in domplate anymore
• Missing globalStorage doesn't cause problems anymore
• Twisties inside arrays output by console.log() work
• Auto-completion also works with quoted fonts
• Display for console.log() of nested arrays fixed
• Correct stack trace is shown
• Console filter persists between browser restarts
• extensions.firebug.sourceLinkLabelWidth affects output of Console API methods
• Quoted fonts are cycled correctly
• getAttributeNodeNS() is not logged into the Web Console
• Box model shading doesn't disappear when moving cursor from hidden element to visible one
• Adding elements via Edit Mode doesn't show them at wrong place
• normalize() doesn't break display of text nodes anymore
• Text is always saved when HTML editing stops
• Resetting options also resets panel orientation
• Firebug is loaded when On for All Web Pages is checked
• Added option to hide Firebug in detached mode
• UI is closed when re-attaching it while Firebug is deactivated
• Clicking Style side panel elements doesn't fail randomly
• UI opens detached again when opening it after it was minimized
• [Auto-completion within try blocks] works
• Resetting options also resets panel tab state
• Cookies are not shown in console when another filter is set
• Info message shown for responses coming from cache instead of duplicated headers
• CSS properties are updated when following a source link
• Cookies are exported in standard (Netscape) format
• Cookie filtering follows RFC
• JavaScript completion doesn't revert to the default when typing things
• Working with Firebug and especially editing HTML using the Edit mode works on about:blank (as long as extensions.firebug.allPagesActivation is set to true or extensions.firebug.filterSystemURLs is set to false)
• Vertical panels option is working
• Element path gets updated when changing elements in Edit mode
• Error breakpoints work (extensions.firebug.showStackTrace must be enabled)
• Up in HTML panel doesn't switch to another context
• Cookies with UTF-8 values are correctly decoded
• Cookie value is correctly URL encoded
• Edit mode works with non-element nodes
• Calling console API functions without parameters doesn't break the display
• "<" is escaped in Edit mode
• Firecookie can automatically be removed by Firebug (functionality integrated into Firebug since 1.10a11)
• "Too much recursion" error is caught for arrays containing themselves
• Correct watch expression is deleted when function watch is expanded
• Pre-completions are avoided when adding at the beginning of an expression
• Fixed display of empty elements inside the Console Panel

You can also have a look at the list of all bug fixes of Firebug 1.10.

[edit] Releases

[edit] See also

• Release notes for current versions
• Firebug 1.9 Release Notes