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	== Firebug 1.10 ==		== Firebug 1.10 ==
-	This is the upcoming version. It is currently in beta phase.	+	This release is the current stable version.
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		+	Blog posts:
		+	* [https://blog.getfirebug.com/2012/07/13/firebug-1-10-0/ Firebug 1.10 announcement]
		+	* [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/firebug-1-10-new-features/ Firebug 1.10 Feature Highlights]
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	=== Overview of Firebug 1.10 ===		=== Overview of Firebug 1.10 ===

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Revision as of 13:33, 13 July 2012

Information on updates for releases and future plans

Contents 1 Download Sites 2 Firebug 1.10 2.1 Overview of Firebug 1.10 2.2 Features and changes 2.2.1 Console and Command Line 2.2.2 HTML 2.2.3 Style 2.2.4 Computed 2.2.5 CSS 2.2.6 Script 2.2.7 Watch 2.2.8 Breakpoints 2.2.9 DOM 2.2.10 Net 2.2.11 Cookies 2.2.12 Inspector 2.2.13 Miscellaneous 2.3 Bug fixes 2.4 Links to notes for each release 3 Firebug 1.9 3.1 Overview of Firebug 1.9 3.2 Features and changes 3.2.1 Console and Command Line 3.2.2 CSS 3.2.3 Script 3.2.4 DOM 3.2.5 Net 3.2.6 Inspector 3.2.7 Miscellaneous 3.3 Bug fixes 3.4 Links to notes for each release 4 Older versions 5 See also

Download Sites

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

Firebug 1.10

This release is the current stable version.

Blog posts:

• Firebug 1.10 announcement
• Firebug 1.10 Feature Highlights

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
• Better default completions
• help command added

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
• Improved auto-completion for CSS functions
• Better default completions for specific values

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
• Normal requests and different kinds of cache requests can be destinguished better

Cookies

• Integrated Firecookie
• Raw value of cookies is displayed

Inspector

• Built-in inspector can be removed from context menu

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)
• Firebug UI can be opened from Firefox Command Line
• First-run page is shown immediately after installing Firebug
• Better wiki page for F1

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
• UI is closed when re-attaching it while Firebug is deactivated
• Clicking Style side panel elements doesn't fail randomly
• UI opens detached again when opening it after it was minimized
• [Auto-completion within try blocks] works
• Resetting options also resets panel tab state
• Cookies are not shown in console when another filter is set
• Info message shown for responses coming from cache instead of duplicated headers
• CSS properties are updated when following a source link
• Cookies are exported in standard (Netscape) format
• Cookie filtering follows RFC
• JavaScript completion doesn't revert to the default when typing things
• Working with Firebug and especially editing HTML using the Edit mode works on about:blank (as long as extensions.firebug.allPagesActivation is set to true or extensions.firebug.filterSystemURLs is set to false)
• Vertical panels option is working
• Element path gets updated when changing elements in Edit mode
• Error breakpoints work (extensions.firebug.showStackTrace must be enabled)
• Up in HTML panel doesn't switch to another context
• Cookies with UTF-8 values are correctly decoded
• Cookie value is correctly URL encoded
• Edit mode works with non-element nodes
• Calling console API functions without parameters doesn't break the display
• "<" is escaped in Edit mode
• Firecookie can automatically be removed by Firebug (functionality integrated into Firebug since 1.10a11)
• "Too much recursion" error is caught for arrays containing themselves
• Correct watch expression is deleted when function watch is expanded
• Pre-completions are avoided when adding at the beginning of an expression

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

Links to notes for each release

Version	Release Date
1.10.0b3	2012-07-06
1.10.0b2	2012-06-29
1.10.0b1	2012-06-22
1.10.0a11	2012-06-08
1.10.0a10	2012-06-01
1.10.0a9	2012-05-25
1.10.0a8	2012-05-11
1.10.0a7	2012-04-13
1.10.0a6	2012-03-30
1.10.0a5	2012-03-09
1.10.0a4	2012-02-24
1.10.0a3	2012-02-10
1.10.0a2	2012-01-27
1.10.0a1	2012-01-13

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

Version	Release Date
Bug fix releases
1.9.2	2012-05-04
1.9.2b1	2012-04-12
1.9.1	2012-01-31
1.9.1b1	2012-01-20
Major release
1.9.0	2012-01-06
1.9.0b5	2011-12-23
1.9.0b4	2011-12-16
1.9.0b3	2011-12-02
1.9.0b2	2011-11-25
1.9.0b1	2011-11-11
1.9.0a5	2011-10-28
1.9.0a4	2011-10-21
1.9.0a3	2011-09-23
1.9.0a2	2011-09-09
1.9.0a1	2011-08-26

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