Firebug 1.4 Release Notes

Revision as of 13:42, 14 April 2011 by Sebastianz (Talk | contribs)

Features and changes

Implement breakOnNext UI for STEP_SUSPEND
Leave the debugger controls visible if the js is stopped
Implement stepStayOnDebuggr to keep chrome out of firebug and vice versa
Implement dynamicURLhasBP to avoid MD5 on eval unless breakpoints are set on evals
skipScrolling if the lines are still in view.
search in source boxes now ignores case unless the user puts an upper case character in the search request box
group eval and events together under path to parent file
implement traceCalls/untraceCalls
implement decompileEvals

support for STATUS_RESOLVING
Support for custom tabs for net requests (like Headers, Params, etc.) within net panel.
Json tab is available even for XHR entries in Console panel.
Limit for cached responses in tabCache.
Maximum size limit for cached responses can be specified in preferences.
Console panel ShowXHRDisabled for FF3.5 until bugzilla 483672 is fixed.
Search response bodies

All modules support Firebug.Listener
add option extensions.firebug-tracing-service.toOSConsole for debugging tracing or early FF
TabWatch dispatch separate from modules dispatch
acceptContext/declineContext replaced by shouldCreateContext/shouldNotCreateContext
function() objects default rep is next to last so function types can be trapped by supportsObject()
DBG_ACTIVATION to focus tracing on activation issues
DBG_SHORTCUTS to focus tracing on key binding issues
DBG_LOCALE tracing for missing localization

Curtis Bartley's Tabs-on-top UI reordering
Improved and simplified "natural" Activation UI, minimize to context menu, all on/off, Firebug stays put.
Firebug remembers which pages you had opened Firebug on.
Supports Firefox 3.5
auto-suspend
Adds tab switching shortcut. Currently hardcoded to ctrl + shift + pgup/pgdown
search across all files (contribution by kpdecker)
Accessiblity by Hans Hillen, incl. tabbing and focus identification, panels Script, DOM , CSS, Breakpoints, DOM
(some) Testing before shipping!
jsd.initAtStartup set false not true
resetAllOptions on Firebug status bar context menu
No more entites for locales, all properties