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getfirebug.com has another great release: Firebug 1.10a8!

Firebug 1.10a8 fixes 25 issues.

Some highlights from this release:

• Trace Styles (issue 2916) – This fresh new feature allows to trace all places which affected specific CSS attribute. This feature is now part of the Computed side panel where every CSS
  attribute is now expandable

  

  As part of this feature, the Computed side panel also supports tooltips for colors, images and fonts.




• Extended monitorEventS() API (issue 5406) – it’s possible to specify a group of events that should be monitored.




• Auto Completion for CSS selectors (issue 5421) – Firebug auto-completes IDs or class names when the users creates a new CSS selectors!

  




• Link between web-font usage and its declaration (issue 5438) – This feature allows to quickly find the place where web-fonts are declared.

  

Thanks to awesome Sebastian Zartner and Simon Lindholm who have done tremendous work on this release!

Please post feedback in the newsgroup, thanks.

Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

Firebug 1.9.2 has been released! Since it must go through the review process on AMO it can take a few days to appear.

Compatibility table:

• Firefox 6.0 – 13.0 with Firebug 1.9
• Firefox 14.0 – 15.0 with Firebug 1.10

This is a maintenance release that fixes several issues already tested with Firebug 1.9.2b1.

Note that Firebug 1.9.2b2 is equal to 1.9.2 and has been released to also updated the beta channel on AMO.

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Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.10a7

Firebug 1.10a7 fixes 11 issues.

Some highlights from this release:

• This version fixes compatibility problem with Firefox Nightly (issue 5375)
• Autocompletion for font-family property in the Style panel (issue 5373)
• displayName function property is now supported also by the Profile (issue 5359)

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Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

Firebug 1.9.2b1 has been released (compatible with Firefox 5-13).

This maintenance release is fixing several issues already tested with Firebug 1.10 (currently alpha). Final release (1.9.2) should be available in couple of weeks.

Firebug 1.9.2b1 fixes 10 issues.

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Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.10a6

Firebug 1.10a6 fixes 13 issues.

Firebug extension developers might be interested in:

• How to hack on Firebug
• How to develop Firebug extensions based on AMD (Asynchronous Module Defintion)

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Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

getfirebug.com has another great release – Firebug 1.10a5

Firebug 1.10a5 fixes 9 issues.

Some highlights from this release:

• Breakpoint condition editor supports auto-completion (issue 3155)
  
  
  
  
  
• The HTML panel properly supports MathML entities references. There are also three options how to display entities in general. You can see the symbol directly, entity name or unicode representation (issue 3159).
  
  
  
  
  
• Colors can be changed using up/down keys (when editing them in the Style side panel). Various formats are supported (rgbs, hsla, hex) (issue 5177)
  
  
• Media queries of @import CSS ruls are displayed and editable (issue 5277).
  
  
  
  
  

Also, we have moved entire Firebug source base to github.com. Here is URL of our new repository:

https://github.com/firebug/firebug

You might also want to read our README.md describing structure of the new repo.

So, if you want the source for experiments just type:

$ git clone git://github.com/firebug/firebug.git

Special thanks to Sebastian Zartner and Simon Lindholm for the help on this release!

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Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.10a4

Firebug 1.10a4 fixes 16 issues.

Firebug extension developers might be also interested in new API introduced in this version. It’s now possible to create and customize toolbars in Firebug without using XUL. This API should be useful especially in cases where you want to avoid XUL, e.g. when developing a bootstrapped extension. An example extension is available.

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Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.10a3

Firebug 1.10a3 is compatible with Firefox 12.

Firebug 1.10a3 fixes 16 issues.

This release improves the multi-line command line (available in the Console panel), which is now supporting color syntax. See the following screenshot.

Firebug extension developers might be also interested how to implement bootstrapped Firebug extensions.

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Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

Firebug 1.9.1 has been released (compatible with Firefox 5-12).

This is a maintenance release coming after Firebug 1.9. Two highlights from this release:

• Workaround for a crash on Mac and Linux 32 bit running Firefox 9. Due to a bug in the debugger service in Firefox 9 the Script panel is disabled in aforementioned configurations. Using Firefox 10 is recommended solution for this problem.
• Firebug 1.9.1 is compatible with Firefox 12.

Some patches have been also ported from 1.10.

See also what has been fixed in Firebug 1.9.1b1.

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Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.10a2

Firebug 1.10a2 is compatible with Firefox 12 (nightly).

Firebug 1.10a2 fixes 11 issues.

This release introduces couple of great improvements:

Delayed Firebug Load

Firebug doesn’t slow down Firefox start time anymore since its loaded as soon as the user actually needs it. There are only a few things loaded at the browser start-up time: the main Firebug menu, Firebug start button and inspect menu-item in page context menu.

This also means that Firebug extensions overlaying only the Firebug UI are loaded as soon as Firebug itself is loaded and so, don’t slow down Firefox start-up time too.

Bootstrapped Firebug

It is now possible to install (and uninstall) Firebug without browser restart. We are also working on APIs that will allow developing bootstrapped (restart-less) Firebug extensions. An example extension is coming soon.

Thanks to awesome Harutyun Amirjanyan for his help on these features!

Some other highlights from this release:

• Every option in panel’s mini tab menu has a tooltip with a description. This should help to understand it’s purpose (issue 3183)
• Autocompletion is now working even in the Watch panel (issue 4934)

And more from our roadmap is coming so, stay tuned!

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Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko