Firebug Release Notes

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Revision as of 12:40, 21 June 2012

Information on updates for releases and future plans

Download Sites

• Mozilla Addons Firebug page
• Releases overview page
• Firebug 1.10 (in alpha phase)
• Firebug 1.9 (current stable)
• Firebug 1.8 (previous release)

Firebug 1.10

This is the upcoming version. It is currently in alpha phase.

Overview of Firebug 1.10

• Firebug Roadmap

Features and changes

Console and Command Line

• Open AJAX response in a new tab
• The Command Editor uses Orion, allowing syntax highlighting
• monitorEvents() and unmonitorEvents() work like in Chrome allowing event groups and arrays with of events
• Completion List Popup can be opened via Ctrl/⌘+Space
• Page Up / Up, Home, End and mouse wheel can be used to scroll the Completion List Popup
• Case-insensitive auto-completion for Command Line

HTML

• Three display methods for entities
• URLs can be opened in a new tab

Style

• Added option to jump from the usage of a web font to its declaration
• Copying a selection only copies the styles
• Pseudo-classes are persistently locked
• :focus can be locked in Style Side Panel

Computed

• Implemented style tracing
• User agent styles can be hidden
• Infotips are shown for colors, images, etc.
• Scrolling is persisted
• Added smart scrolling for when a style or style group is expanded

CSS

• CSS rules can be deleted
• Up/Down keys can in-/decrease numeric values in strings
• Values of hex, rgba and hsla colors can be changed using Up/Down keys
• Rules other than style rules can be inspected
• @charset rules are displayed
• @import rule media queries are displayed and can be edited
• Auto-completion picks up font names used inside a page
• Added auto-completion for CSS selectors
• Auto-completion works at the start of expressions
• @namespace rules are displayed
• Auto-completion suggestions are not repeated in shorthand properties
• Color format display can be changed
• Units will be added when changing 0 value with Up/Down key
• Dispatch event on property name change

Script

• Removed Show chrome sources
• Breakpoint condition editor supports auto-completion

Watch

• Auto-completion while entering an expression

Breakpoints

• Breakpoints categories can be folded

DOM

• CSS rules have an improved display
• Inspector works with DOM panel
• Editing of read-only values is prevented

Net

• New onResponseHeaders API

Cookies

• Integrated Firecookie

Miscellaneous

• Firebug is restart-less
• Delayed loading of modules
• Shortcut to deactivate Firebug can be changed
• A page can be refreshed via keyboard shortcuts while the detached Firebug window is focused
• All options inside Firebug have descriptive tooltips
• New API for extending Firebug toolbars
• Added link to extensions page to Firebug Menu
• Auto-completion respects user's chosen case
• Help key can be rebound
• Break On ... has a shortcut (Ctrl/⌘+Alt+B)

You can also have a look at the list of all enhancements of Firebug 1.10.

Bug fixes

• Scroll position in Script panel is retained after XHR
• Tab scroll arrows do not appear anymore
• Auto-completion for variables in catch block also work under Linux
• Up/Down key works correctly for fonts defined in CSS
• Multi-line console messages can be copied
• Quotes can be entered into the style attribute
• Pasting multi-line messages into the Command Line Popup works correctly
• Workaround for Firefox bug causing problems in Linux and Mac OS
• Removed the misplaced context menu option Edit Element Style... from the context menu of the Computed Side Panel
• Fixed option Enable JavaScript and Refresh
• ⌘ + W on Mac OS works again as expected
• Break On This Error appears again inside the context menu of JS error messages
• Fixed display problem of search options panel
• Detached Firebug receives focus when an element is inspected
• Fallback for Command Editor for the case the Orion editor is not present
• Clicking on computed styles in Console Panel inspects them in DOM Panel
• Deactivating or minimizing Firebug focuses the browser window
• Inspecting an element via the context menu when Firebug is not loaded yet works
• Introduced new option extensions.firebug.preferJSDSourceLinks, which controls whether the Console Panel uses JSD to return the source links
• Fixed SourceEditor not being defined in SeaMonkey
• Side panels can be unregistered properly
• Obsolete prefixed CSS is replaced
• CSS inside an embedded SVG shows up inside the CSS Panel
• The Script Panel doesn't take over Firebug anymore
• The Script Panel doesn't jump to another script anymore on timeout
• Shortcuts are also working when Firebug was not activated before
• Activation options are displayed correctly for the different Firebug states
• Interference with Firefox internal shortcuts was corrected
• Display of Style Side Panel doesn't fail anymore on invalid character in strings
• HTML mutation breaks also work without having the HTML Panel selected
• HTMLCollections are displayed correctly when the script execution is stopped
• Array indices are sorted numerically instead of alphabetically
• HTML Panel gets updated when nodes are changed in other panels
• Break On Mutation also works when the HTML Panel is not selected
• displayName is used in the Profiler
• BR() isn't causing problems in domplate anymore
• Missing globalStorage doesn't cause problems anymore
• Twisties inside arrays output by console.log() work
• Auto-completion also works with quoted fonts
• Display for console.log() of nested arrays fixed
• Correct stack trace is shown
• Console filter persists between browser restarts
• extensions.firebug.sourceLinkLabelWidth affects output of Console API methods
• Quoted fonts are cycled correctly
• getAttributeNodeNS() is not logged into the Web Console
• Box model shading doesn't disappear when moving cursor from hidden element to visible one
• Adding elements via Edit Mode doesn't show them at wrong place
• normalize() doesn't break display of text nodes anymore
• Text is always saved when HTML editing stops
• Resetting options also resets panel orientation
• Firebug is loaded when On for All Web Pages is checked
• Added option to hide Firebug in detached mode

You can also have a look at the list of all bug fixes of Firebug 1.10.

Links to notes for each release

1.10.0a11 1.10.0a10 1.10.0a9 1.10.0a8 1.10.0a7 1.10.0a6 1.10.0a5 1.10.0a4 1.10.0a3 1.10.0a2 1.10.0a1

Firebug 1.9

This release is the current stable version.

Blog posts:

• Firebug 1.9 Released
• Firebug 1.9 Feature Highlights

Overview of Firebug 1.9

• Architectural refactoring plans

Features and changes

Console and Command Line

• console.firebug removed because of privacy reasons
• No errors shown for NTLM authentication
• Files names and line numbers for all errors
• Auto-completion via . for properties not accessible via .
• Auto-completion for [
• Auto-completion for Math object and expressions beginning with new operator
• Syntax error position is now shown

CSS

• Infotip for fonts and web fonts

Script

• displayName property for pretty function names in Stack Side Panel
• Rerun now has a shortcut (Shift+F8)
• Adding watches is now available in the context menu for variables
• An Infotip is now shown when hovering a conditional breakpoint showing the condition
• Scroll position is now persisted
• Infotip for array items was added

DOM

• Border and hover background for entries
• New option Show inline event handlers
• Adding watches is now available in the context menu for variables

Net

• New Protocol column displaying the network protocol of a request
• Copy parts of JSON responses into the clipboard
• Requests can now be resent
• Web font information is now displayed
• Formatted network request headers are sorted alphabetically

Inspector

• Remove elements from the page while inspecting

Miscellaneous

• Right-clicking panel tab opens Options Menu
• Radio options for enabling/disabling panels replaced by check option
• Firebug shortcuts don't conflict anymore with other shortcuts (Search Field focussing now works via Ctrl+F)
• Break On ... buttons are now disabled when the Script Panel is disabled
• Firebug UI can now be positioned on all for sides of the browser window
• No restart required anymore when changing shortcuts

You can also have a look at the list of all enhancements of Firebug 1.9.

Bug fixes

Fixed issues in Firebug 1.9

Links to notes for each release

Bug fix releases

1.9.1 1.9.1b1

Major release

1.9.0 1.9.0b5 1.9.0b4 1.9.0b3 1.9.0b2 1.9.0b1 1.9.0a5 1.9.0a4 1.9.0a3 1.9.0a2 1.9.0a1

Older versions

• Firebug 1.8
• Firebug 1.7
• Firebug 1.6
• Firebug 1.5
• Firebug 1.4
• Firebug 1.3
• Firebug 1.2
• Firebug 1.1

See also

• Firebug on Mozilla wiki
• Feature Wish List