A couple of weeks ago I came across a reference to Mac Optimized Builds of Firefox. There’s a long tradition of community-based builds of Firefox for the Mac dating back to the PowerPC days.
A lot’s changed since those dark days, however. To say that we spend a lot of energy doing performance analysis is a [...]
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 panel timings
Break [...]
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.
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I saw a tweet this morning from Joe Walker linking to this article asking Is View-Source Good? from Alex Russell of Dojo fame and I had to write about it. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a fair bit lately, so his timing was excellent.
Open systems are better and lead to more productive coders. This [...]
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 Net [...]
I was surprised this morning when I did my update to today’s newest nightly of Namoroka and all of my extensions were disabled. I was extra-surprised when I tried enabling my extensions with Nightly Tester Tools and it didn’t work. Turns out that Mossop’s been busy implementing a patch for bug 521905.
Now for version 3.6b3 [...]
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 February I posted a write-up on how to automate uploads of screen captures to a web directory for sharing with others. The idea was inspired by the popular Grabup software (which Google has now added a malware warning to so I’m not linking to it). Since then OS X 10.6(.1) has been released upon [...]
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 [...]
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