Firebug 1.6 Release Notes

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Contents 1 Overview of Firebug 1.6 1.1 Console and Command Line 1.2 HTML 1.3 CSS 1.4 Script 1.5 DOM 1.6 Net 1.7 Toolbars and Menus 1.8 Miscellaneous 1.9 Bug fixes 2 Links to notes for each release 2.1 Bug fix releases 2.2 Major release

Overview of Firebug 1.6

Firebug 1.6 supports Firefox 3.6

Console and Command Line

• Command line available on all panels
• New API for the console object: console.table()
• Console allows to filter its content
• Improved auto-completion now the best of all
• Logging of cut/copy/paste events
• Support for XPath console logging
• Descriptive background colors for console messages

HTML

• Support for expand All through a context menu or by pressing '*'
• When copying XPath, namespace is included (if any)
• Improved display of iframes
• DOCTYPE is now also displayed
• Scrollable Breadcrumbs
• Better keyboard navigation

CSS

• Better search match highlighting
• SVG CSS autocomplete
• Support for copying CSS declarations
• Folding for computed styles
• Auto-completion for "!important"

Script

• Disabling break on next error
• The stack panel now displays argument names and values + support for expanding/collapsing
• Script Panel shows nicer message when it is inactive during page load
• Improved presentation of the scope chain in the Script panel Watch side panel
• Save and restore breakpoints across Firefox sessions
• Script panel file list has auto scroll button and shows filtering text

DOM

• Show the prototype, constructor, and __proto__ properties of objects
• localStorage and sessionStorage now also displayed
• Better search match highlighting

Net

• BF Cache reads are also reported
• MozAfterPaint events displayed in the timeline
• SVG pretty print in the net panel
• Better search match highlighting

Toolbars and Menus

• Back and Forward arrows
• Scrolling Panels tab Bar
• New option to use en-US locale

Miscellaneous

• First Run Page now displayed when new Firebug version is installed
• TestBot result page displaying results from automated testing
• Known issue page
• Visual indication for search field not finding any matches
• Support for private browsing mode
• Filterable file location menus
• Locale updates + one new language
• New Firebug icon
• Editor configurations improvements

You can also have a look at the list of all enhancements of Firebug 1.6.

Bug fixes

Fixed issues in Firebug 1.6

Links to notes for each release

Bug fix releases

1.6.2 1.6.1 1.6.1b2 1.6.1b1

Major release

1.6 1.6b4 1.6b3 1.6b2 1.6b1 1.6a20 1.6a19 1.6a18 1.6a17 1.6a16 1.6a15 1.6a14 1.6a13 1.6a12 1.6a11 1.6a10 1.6a9 1.6a8 1.6a7 1.6a6 1.6a5 1.6a4 1.6a3 1.6a2 1.6a1