Firebug

in the FF3 beta cycle, Firebug’s 1.1 command line stopped working. The fix for this became quite involved, eventually requiring both the command line and console to be reimplemented. I’ll describe the console first, maybe the command line next time. ... [More] The Firebug ‘console’ allows web developers to append text and objects to Firebug’s Console panel. [...] [Less]

In preparation for Firebug 1.2 beta 1, I analyzed the Firebug bug (aka issues) list. Here is a breakdown, with links to the issue list filtered in various ways. There are 521 issues, of which 266 are closed and 255 are open. The closed issues include 108 Fixed issues now in Firebug 1.1.0b12. (Yeah!) The [...]

Honza has a great new tutorial on extending firebug, starting with a HelloWorld extension and then building up to adding to the toolbar. He includes all the key elements, the chrome file and manifest setup, the UI extension by overlay, and registering your extension with Firebug. On top of all that he has a small [...]

Back at the end of November some Firebug folks got together to form the Firebug Working Group. We’re just an informal group of engineers who want to sustain and grow the Firebug open source project. We now have firebug 1.1 beta on getfirebug.com and a plan for firebug 1.2 and beyond. Now we have [...]

This release has three small but important fixes: Issue 450: DOM Browser crashes Firefox The cause, in my opinion, a design flaw in Javascript. One of the wonderful things about Javascript is the ability to use objects as tables. You can loop over the table easily: var table = {}; table[”foo”] = bar; for (name in table) { … Then [...]

getfirebug.com now has the latest firebug 1.1 beta, b11. This release adds contributed localizations for Turkish and Bulgarian. Otherwise the main news here is that getfirebug.com will now be providing regular updates and, soon, access to early releases of firebug 1.2 and chromebug.

Since September or so, firebug 1.1 betas have been distributed from http:fireclipse.xucia.com. This worked ok for folks reading the Firebug newsgroup because I would keep pointing them over to the beta. But most people get firebug from getfirebug.com. So I got together with Joe and he agreed to distribution of firebug 1.1 [...]

Since Firebug is just a side-project for me, I’m not able to spend as much time improving it as I would like. Fortunately, someone has come forward and offered to help. I am excited to report that Yahoo! has created a full-time position within the YUI group for a developer to work on [...]

About an hour ago I received word of a 0-day security exploit that has been discovered and reported. I have just released a new Firebug (version 1.03) with a fix for this bug, and I recommend that everyone install it as soon as possible. The update has been published to addons.mozilla.org, so you can get [...]

One of the most common questions about Firebug is, “How do I get the source?” I’ve been planning to create a public Subversion repository on getfirebug.com for a long time, but this weekend I decided I’m better off letting someone else be the sysadmin. With that, I’m happy to announce that the Firebug [...]