Firebug 1.3 Release Notes

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Contents 1 Features and changes 1.1 Not Panel specific 1.2 Javascript Debugging 1.3 Console 1.4 DOM 1.5 Net 1.6 Tracing 1.7 For extensions

Features and changes

Not Panel specific

• FBTrace service (for internal Firebug debugging).
• TraceConsole (for internal Firebug debugging)
• Internationalize locales via Babelzilla; begin moving away from entities to properties.

Javascript Debugging

• Script panel implemented with as viewport on source to improve performance on large JS files
• Find debuggers by scope chain analysis rather than jsContext
• scope chain shows in watches panel (from contribution by kpdecker)

Console

• reimplement console/command line to reduce chance of console undefined.

DOM

• DOM properties alphabetical

Net

• Reimplement all response views with nsITraceableChannel
• Centralize handlers for http-on-modify-request in firebug-http-observer component
• Net panel timing improvements: more categories in timing.

Tracing

• Add TraceConsole to aid debugging Firebug.
• FBTrace panel removed from X versions (TraceConsole instead)
• new option DBG_SPY for spy.js
• firebug-service tracing to traceConsole

For extensions

• add onApplyDecorator(sourceBox), allows annotation of source
• add module function isNeededGetReady() to signal a dependency and prepare for later use (debugger calls it to insure commandline is in for watches panel)