Firebug Release Notes

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Contents 1 Download Sites 2 Firebug 1.11 2.1 Features and changes 2.1.1 Console and Command Line 2.1.2 HTML 2.1.3 Style 2.1.4 Computed 2.1.5 Watch 2.1.6 CSS 2.1.7 Elements Side Panel 2.1.8 Net 2.1.9 Cookies 2.1.10 Miscellaneous 2.2 Bug fixes 2.3 Links to notes for each release 3 Older versions 4 See also

Download Sites

• Mozilla Addons Firebug page
• Releases overview page
• Firebug 1.11 (current stable)
• Firebug 1.10 (previous release)

Firebug 1.11

This release is the current stable version.

Blog posts:

• Firebug 1.11 announcement
• Firebug 1.11 Feature Highlights

Features and changes

Console and Command Line

• Enhanced $x()
• Event target is added to event logs
• Stack trace is shown for function call logs
• $() now uses querySelector() instead of getElementById()
• Root element can now be set for $()
• API for registering commands
• Auto-completion for built-in members
• Support for PerformanceTiming spec
• New Command Line API include()
• Completion List Popup is opened at start of expression
• window.postMessage() output is displayed
• Formatting of parts of console logs

HTML

• Doctypes of <iframe>s are displayed
• Touch events are logged when enabling event logging for a tag
• HTML content can be pasted

Style

• New CSS rules can be created inside the Style Side Panel
• Used fonts are highlighted

Computed

• Long property values are cropped

Watch

• All watch expressions can be removed at once

CSS

• Long values are cropped
• Save success is indicated for media queries of @import rules

Elements Side Panel

• Matching elements can be displayed for CSS selectors (integrated SelectBug)
• Added auto-completion for selectors

Net

• Display of SPDY protocol

Cookies

• Infotip for cookie size

Miscellaneous

• Preference extensions.firebug.delayLoad to allow controlling delayed loading of Firebug
• Location menu search includes file path
• Activation complies to the some origin policy
• Improved logic for when to open the first-run page

You can also have a look at the list of all enhancements of Firebug 1.11.

Bug fixes

• Argument logging was unified
• Error breakpoints can be set for shallow errors when Show Stack Trace with Errors isn't set
• Completion List Popup works correctly when switching to Command Editor
• Cookies panel is localized when extensions.firebug.useDefaultLocale is set to true
• Inline editing of cropped values shows them completely
• HTML tab keeps displayed for XHR requests on browser tab change
• Firefox crash on Linux avoided
• Infotip for web fonts displayed correctly
• Special font definitions are displayed
• Style Side Panel isn't empty after reloading a page while not hovering it
• Tables created via console.table() can be scrolled horizontally
• UTF-8 values in cookies are displayed correctly
• Numbers formatting respects OS locale settings
• Short tags of elements with a class attribute starting with a space are displayed correctly
• HTML Panel visibility updates affect children
• Changing an attribute of an HTML element doesn't switch to it inside the Style Side Panel
• Toggling options while menu is still open takes effect
• gcli commands are removed again when Firebug is disabled
• Delete "element.style" is working as expected
• All not inheritable properties are listed correctly
• Cookies from IDN domains are shown
• Style disabling works as expected
• Denying host-specific cookies and accepting to remove them only removes them and not others
• Correct display of IPv6 addresses
• Header parts surrounded by arrow brackets are not interpreted as HTML tags
• Layout Side Panel refreshes values when resizing the browser window
• XHR responses are opened in a new browser tab
• HTML Panel is properly updated when reloading an iframe
• Radio button isn't deselected when inspecting it
• Array-like objects are shown differently than real arrays
• Element visibility is updated when its CSS is changed
• Inspector doesn't blink on font family related checking
• HTML Edit Mode doesn't lose focus when accessibility enhancements are enabled
• Source link is shown for CSS errors
• Disabling Firebug doesn't break Firefox UI
• Firebug can be opened in popop windows
• Console logging from iframes is working correctly
• Help command works on Mac OS and Linux/Unix
• Global completions respect cd()
• Pressing Esc doesn't let CSS properties disappear
• Copy/Paste work in Layout Side Panel
• Cookies at root level are shown
• Start Button Infotip is correctly reflecting the panel states
• Firebug gets closed when browser popup window is closed
• Inspection doesn't jump around
• Extensions don't break Location Menu anymore
• Box model shading works after iframe reload
• Break On XHR works as expected
• RTL character doesn't break HTML Panel display

You can also have a look at the list of all bug fixes of Firebug 1.11.

Links to notes for each release

Version	Release Date
1.11.0	2012-12-07
1.11.0b3	2012-11-30
1.11.0b2	2012-11-16
1.11.0b1	2012-11-09
1.11.0a6	2012-11-02
1.11.0a5	2012-10-19
1.11.0a4	2012-10-05
1.11.0a3	2012-09-13
1.11.0a2	2012-08-24
1.11.0a1	2012-08-17

Older versions

• Firebug 1.10
• Firebug 1.9
• 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