Last week I managed to get the Inspector’s new tree panel working locally. It was a good chunk of work, incorporating about 2000 lines of DOMPlate, converted to a new JavaScript Code Module and another 1000 or so lines of JavaScript and CSS from Firebug. This morning I finished up the styling fixes for Windows [...]
A couple of months ago, I started working on a new feature for Firefox, the first part of which landed last night and is in today’s nightly. It’s pretty rough-looking still, but over the next few days and weeks we’ll be landing new features as they’re written and struggle through the review process. There are [...]
I found a cool little feature this morning while poking around in Firebug’s command line code. If you expand the Console’s command line to the large area (using the little up arrow on the right of the command line), you can enter a block of text, nicely formatted. This is probably not news to anyone. [...]
One of our goals for moving forward with Firebug is to build a system to run automated unit tests for it. Currently, Firebug is modified, packaged and then tested by a small (but enthusiastic!) group of developers. When changes are made to the codebase, the area under development might be tested by the developer, but [...]
This week was a pretty incredible week for web stuff. The Labs people kicked off their Ubiquity prototype, letting the world get a taste for some of what will be possible through natural language processing and the browser. I also discovered a new feed reading add-on for Firefox called Feedly which does some very cool [...]
This weekend I took a bit of time out of my busy schedule of barbecuing and hiking among the rocks to write a little extension. A visiting friend asked if there was an easy way to get a list of the currently open tabs to enter in a wiki page. I tried various “bookmark all [...]
After the Firefox 3 Release Week excitement, I kind of zoned-out for a bit and forgot about my blog. In an attempt to re-invigorate it, I’ve updated the theme to something a little less “newspapery” and should be able to get it looking a bit better than it did out of the box. It’s a [...]
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