For years, the world has been able to rely on Firebug and its console for debugging web sites. It has been a convenient and productive tool and we’d probably still be languishing in the window.dump() mines without it. A side-effect of this availability has made some patterns appear that don’t play nicely with consoles that [...]
I am very happy to be able to announce the release of Firebug 1.5.0 on addons.mozilla.org. This release represents a significant effort by the Firebug Working Group which saw the addition of some new faces over the last few months. Here’s a quick run-down of some of the new features: Enhanced Inspector More accurate Net [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I made a short-ish screencast about some of the basic features of Firebug. I plan on making more of these in the near future highlighting some of the features of Firebug 1.5 and some of the other, lesser known things you can do. this is an HTML5 video element. Right [...]
One thing we hear a lot from Firebug users is that Firebug slows down Firefox. When Firebug is active, particularly when you’ve enabled the Console/Script panels, some pages perform much more slowly. Enabling these panels turns on all of our debugging hooks, so some slowdown isn’t surprising, but what may surprise you is that, in [...]
As of this minute, Firebug 1.5 is sitting comfortably in its third beta and available for download. This version is shaping up to be our best release yet and initial reports have been very positive regarding its stability, UI improvements and new features. So let’s take a look at some of the new features. Improved [...]
This is the second part of the Firebug Features Poll (part 1 is here). This time, focusing on the answers to the question: What is your least favorite Firebug feature. The one you never use. I don’t know if the question was worded poorly or if people just felt like venting, but many of the [...]
Last week I did a little informal polling via Twitter and Rypple asking users what their favorite and least favorite features of Firebug were. I will be the first person to admit that this isn’t exactly rigorously scientific as we only had a limited number of respondents from a possibly limited sample space (mostly English [...]
Kevin Decker has posted a new version of the Firediff extension for Firebug which he’s calling “a major milestone”. While still not producing unified patches you can apply directly to your source code, it does create a “serialized version of the page state” you can then manually apply. Firediff Snapshot + Diff Generation – In [...]
… or, which version of Firebug should I use with Firefox 3.6, aka Namoroka? We’re in a bit of a funny place with Firebug and Firefox 3.6. The Firebug 1.5 line is currently running better on Firefox 3.7 (trunk, mozilla-central) than it is on the 1.9.2 branch (Firefox 3.6, aka Namoroka). Fallout from a couple [...]
Yesterday afternoon I posted a somewhat cryptic tweet: Orange ftw. Blog post to follow. http://twitpic.com/gcizx Well, here’s the blog post. That little orange box is the first successful run of Firebug’s FBTest test automation tool through buildbot. It’s currently posting to the MozillaTest Tinderbox. This is phase 1. We’re currently running Firebug’s 1.5 branch out [...]
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