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 3 See also

[edit] Overview of Firebug 1.6

Firebug 1.6 supports Firefox 3.6

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] CSS

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

[edit] 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

[edit] DOM

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

[edit] Net

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

[edit] Toolbars and Menus

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Bug fixes

Fixed issues in Firebug 1.6

[edit] Links to notes for each release

[edit] Bug fix releases

1.6.2 1.6.1 1.6.1b2 1.6.1b1

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Release notes for current versions
• Firebug 1.5 Release Notes