Firebug Feature Wish List

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Revision as of 09:12, 20 December 2011

The following list describes features and enhancements, that are wished to be implemented in Firebug. If you're missing a feature in this list, that you want to be added, make sure you read the page for what to do when you miss a feature first.

Note: This list does not represent what is planned to be implemented. It should be seen as hint for what could be included. Also this list does not represent the -label%3DFBTest%2CFBTrace%2Ccrossfire%2Clite%2Cextension%2Cdojofirebugextension%2Ceventbug%2Cfirediff%2Cnetexport%2Cfirestarter%2Cconsoleexport%2Cchromebug complete list of enhancement requests.

Command Line

• 55: Enhancement: Auto-Code-Completion for large command line
• 1309: Add `console.benchmark`
• 3622: Commandline completion for [ in addition to .
• 3623: Commandline completion-looking documentation for function(...
• 3715: Cmdline autocompletion menu: icons/colors to differenciate elements by type
• 4176: Commands in firebug
• 4276: Console history should be preserved across browser sessions
• 4803: Command Line auto-completion for properties that are not accessible via .

Console Panel

• 322: Enhancement: Hierarchal profiler output
• 1982: Stack trace shows parameters in their current state (not in the state when a function was called)
• 2792: "Copy Error" function on error displayed in Console should copy all details, including any available stack trace
• 2972: Make filtering of search matches in console panel optional
• 3042: Show syntax error position like in error console of Firefox
• 3759: Provide more context for error breakpoints and format them like the Script panel
• 3872: 'Break On All Errors' doesn't stop on custom errors
• 4729: Log with file and line number
• 4798: Breakpoint Column for Console panel
• 4819: Combine Console API functions group() and groupCollapsed()
• 4850: Console panel should indicate, that the script stopped at an error breakpoint
• 4979: Group console messages

HTML Panel

• 2111: 'EditHtml' completed and event handler is gone
• 2153: Show line numbers in editors
• 2302: Find not works on block tags
• 2645: Edit HTML without having to switch to "Edit" mode
• 3050: Add "Persist" button to HTML, CSS and DOM panel for keeping changes after a page reload
• 3056: Option for switching between different CSS media types in HTML panel
• 3189: Search for Edit Mode in HTML Panel
• 3228: Ability to change the doctype inside the HTML Panel
• 3445: HTML Panel should have better search match highlighting
• 4794: Make HTML panel viewport based
• 4795: Breakpoint Column for HTML panel
• 4851: HTML panel should indicate, that the script stopped at a node
• 4911: Block expanding, highlighting and scrolling of changes into view while inspecting

CSS Panel

• 553: Visualize erroneous CSS in Style side panel
• 1241: Highlighting of changed css
• 1584: CSS edit text wrapping
• 1717: CSS Panel does not have @media UI
• 2153: Show line numbers in editors
• 2495: The rendered font should be highlighted in CSS panel
• 2796: Ability to create a new rule in the style panel
• 2916: Trace Styles Feature
• 3015: Smarter auto-completion for shorthand properties
• 3050: Add "Persist" button to HTML, CSS and DOM panel for keeping changes after a page reload
• 3070: CSS Panel: Filter by CSS property
• 3230: Pseudo-classes are not persistently shown in Style Side Panel
• 3501: Add a helper for numerical values of CSS properties
• 3756: add filtering to computed style panel
• 3847: Add context options to @font-face rules
• 3848: Infotip for WOFF files inside font-family property
• 3871: Change color format
• 4343: CSS error indicator improvements
• 4355: Line breaking of CSS styles leads to confusion
• 4470: Preview for CSS gradients
• 4505: Improved auto-completion for CSS functions
• 4711: Add editors sub-menu to the context menu of the Script and CSS Location Menu]
• 4796: Breakpoints for CSS panel
• 4797: Breakpoint Column for CSS panel
• 4882: @keyframes rules should be shown inside CSS panel
• 4949: Batch disabling/enabling of CSS rules
• 4966: Infotip for WOFF files inside @font-face rules
• 5000: Add option to delete CSS rule

DOM Panel

• 2111: 'EditHtml' completed and event handler is gone
• 2952: Enh: DOM Panel should prevent editing of read-only properties
• 3050: Add "Persist" button to HTML, CSS and DOM panel for keeping changes after a page reload
• 3113: Feature Request - DOM Tab -> Add Property
• 3829: DOM Element History
• 4162: Add "Break On Property Addition" and "Break On Property Removal"
• 4418: hide item 'summary' when object is expanded in DOM inspector
• 4858: DOM panel should indicate, that the script stopped at a DOM breakpoint
• 4873: Just changed parts of the DOM panel should get refreshed

Script Panel

• 551: Add ability to somehow block mousemove event
• 1811: Add prettyName/displayName support to Profiler output and Stacks
• 1413: Restore position in Script panel after page reload
• 2526: Enhancement: Add Step into, over and Run keys to the Shortcut keys
• 2638: Show info popup when hovering a breakpoint / execution indicator icon
• 2811: Replace script menu button in script panel by tree view
• 2814: Improve display of inline scripts in Script panel
• 2817: Hit counts for breakpoints
• 2821: Possibility to assign breakpoints to groups
• 2856: Possibility to jump from function call expressions in the script Panel to the function definitions
• 2857: Possibility to jump from variables in script panel to DOM panel via Ctrl + click
• 2858: Possibility to jump from selector in script panel to element inside HTML panel
• 2859: Script panel context menu item to add a variable to the watch list
• 2859: Improve "Add Watch"
• 3115: Code folding for scripts
• 3129: Remove breakpointDisabledExe.png and breakpointExe.png in favor of stacked images
• 3155: Editing breakpoint conditions should have auto-completion
• 3250: General messages of Script Panel should hide Panel Toolbar and side panels
• 3271: Highlight next executed function
• 3448: Script Panel should have better search match highlighting
• 3982: Highlight breakpoint inside the Breakpoints side panel, at which the script is halted at
• 3996: Conditional Break on Next
• 4356: Keyboard shortcut for toggling activation of all breakpoints
• 4378: Move editing of breakpoint conditions to Breakpoints Side Panel
• 4515: Shortcuts for "Run to This Line" should work when clicking into the code
• 4711: Add editors sub-menu to the context menu of the Script and CSS Location Menu]
• 4747: Separate scripts from different documents (iframes, frames...) inside the Script Location Menu
• 4823: Native javascript code color/highlight (without FireRainbow extension)
• 4845: Rerun should have a shortcut like the other debugging options
• 4862: Add "Add Watch" to context/right click menu in Watch panel
• 4885: Break on next: add a filter by src file feature
• 4888: Allow ignoring of scripts when single stepping through code
• 4889: Folding for breakpoint categories
• 4890: Possibility to disable error breakpoints in Breakpoints side panel
• 4906: Show notification, if tab cache is exceeded
• 4940: Tooltip improvements with arrays
• 4995: improve script panel tooltip
• 5044: Shortcut for Break On Next

Net Panel

• 1209: Add ability to re-open the open Net panel objects after a reload
• 1366: Add a scale to the Net panel
• 2225: Resending a XMLHttpRequest
• 2348: Intercept/modify a request
• 2424: Additional network panel columns
• 2617: Net panel header should be fixed on top instead of scrolling with the content
• 2618: Request summary in Net panel just shown for the last request when 'Persist' is enabled
• 2761: More filetype filters in Net panel?
• 3071: Display sample of WOFF file inside Net Panel
• 3560: Search in Net panel to act as a filter
• 3613: Displaying server side timings info in the Net panel
• 3757: Normal HTTP requests and the different kinds of cache requests should be better distinguishable
• 4156: Multiple filters selectable in Net panel
• 4373: Warnings for Net Panel
• 4805: Distinguish or Highlight HTTPS protocol requests in Net panel
• 4829: Custom Filters for Net Panel (other panels?)
• 4852: Net panel should indicate, that the script stopped at an XHR breakpoint
• 4898: Adapt Firebug waterfall graph to suggested UI conventions
• 4910: Sort headers of network requests in formatted view alphabetically
• 4930: Headers in net requests should be collapsible
• 5017: Merge POST and URL parameter info into one tab

Inspector

• 2273: Box model shadowing on (css) transformed elements doesn't work correctly
• 3914: Convert Image Map highlighter to SVG and add the ability to inspect SVG objects
• 3972: Add remote inspect
• 4848: Create new SVG inspector

Search

• 2302: Find not works on block tags
• 2972: Make filtering of search matches in console panel optional
• 3195: Search field should display current tab
• 3445: HTML Panel should have better search match highlighting
• 3448: Script Panel should have better search match highlighting
• 3560: Search in Net panel to act as a filter
• 4879: Show number of matches while searching
• 5014: Rework auto-case-sensitive search

Profiler

• 1811: Add prettyName/displayName support to Profiler output and Stacks
• 3530: fixed headers for profile
• 4520: Separate panel for profiling
• 4529: Enhanced Memory Profiler

External editors

• 4731: Shortcut for default external editor
• 4774: Better integration and visibility of external editors
• 5035: Add ability to map domain/url path to a file system path for the purpose of opening a file in external editor.

Extensions

• 4045: New APIs for extending page context menu
• 4793: API for extending Firebug toolbars
• 4937: Firebug extensions should register in Firebug

Miscellaneous

• 54: Enhancement: UNDO function
• 341: Dragable control to min/maximise Firebug should be thicker than one pixel
• 471: Linux-specific theme for Firebug
• 1141: Maximize Firebug by double-clicking on a tab
• 2001: Add storage panel
• 2425: Changable order of grid columns
• 2633: Instrumentation for Firebug aka "Help Improve Firebug"
• 2961: Update Firebug's Look and Feel
• 2995: Inconsistent "Break On..." behavior
• 3183: Add descriptions to Options Mini Menu items
• 3550: Create a seperate element path bar
• 3575: Make it possible to search inside side panels
• 3779: New firebug icon is hard to see in browser status bar
• 4001: Clicking and hovering the error badge should have different action than the toolbar button
• 4024: Use arrows instead of +/- signs for expansion
• 4032: Please offer option to disable update notification page
• 4173: Window/Document menu
• 4377: List of editors should be removed from Firebug Menu
• 4395: Inclusion of "Firebug" in the User-Agent
• 4425: Better support for Domplate templates inheritance
• 4316: Error Notification Count not bright enough
• 4722: Radio options Enabled/Disabled of activatable panels should be combined in a check option
• 4841: Persist scrolling of panels when reloading a page
• 4899: Firebug should suppress Firefox's console prompted by scratchpad
• 4925: Disable Break On ... buttons when debugger is not activated
• 4960: Review internal file structure
• 4967: Use panel bar for resizing the Firebug UI
• 5031: Allow changing the shortcuts without having to restart the browser