getfirebug.com has Chromebug 1.7a1, a release of the debugger we use on Firebug. Firebug 1.7a1 should be installed first. For more information on using Chromebug see the Chromebug User Guide.
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getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.7a1, our first release of our new branch for Firebug. We have big plans for 1.7, but until we have completed Firebug 1.6.0, our 1.7 branch allows us to check out fixes to 1.6 bugs and to add small features we may not want on 1.6 because they are riskier.
The first 1.7 feature is “re-run this stack”. If you click on the circle icon while on a breakpoint, Firebug will re-run just the call stack you are stopped on. For now this is just a shortcut. Developers oft
en set a breakpoint then re-run their code. Rather than hitting continue then finding the button in the web page that triggers the code you are debugging, now you just press re-run. In the future we are going to automate the breakpoint setting as well.
Five bugs are also fixed in this release.
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Followup in the newsgroup please.
Finally! getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6b1!
All of our tests pass on Firefox 3.6.9pre, a nightly build of the upcoming Firefox 3.6.9. Six tests fail on Firefox 4.0b4, because of known issues in the Firefox beta release.
The last feature added to 1.6 was a Console panel option, Show Completion List Popup.This is on by default, but users on Linux will need to turn it off. The Firefox panel we use for the popup does not work correctly on Linux yet. We fixed at 7 more bugs since 1.6a20.
Some of the major features of 1.6 that we would love to get bug reports on include:
debugger; keywords.While this is a great list of new features, Firebug extensions will be taking over most of the job of improving Firebug from now on. Our first deployment of the Firebug Swarm should be out later this week. More on that shortly…
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getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a20. All tests pass on Firefox 3.6.9. We plan 1.6b1 for early next week in conjunction with Firefox 4.0b4 which looks like it will work for everything except AJAX debugging.
This release includes a preference you can set via about:config to disable the popup completion dialog, extensions.firebug.commandLineShowCompleterPopup. We will disable the popup on Linux by default for Firefox 3.6.The Mozilla platform feature we use (panel) does not work correctly on Linux. We will evaluate it on Firefox 4.0. We may add a user interface control for this option if it seems like the completion works well enough without the popup.
This release is dedicated to Prefontim and markus.audi for their help in tracking down Issue 2948 and Issue 3292 as well as on-going efforts on Issue 3327.
Nine bugs are fixed in this release.
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getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a19, the stalling-and-blaming-FF4b3 release. We have some bugs to fix before b1, but we want to get existing fixes out. And we want to evaluate 1.6 on FF4.0, but we have to wait for 4.0b4 for that. Plus it’s summer here…..
And 13 bug fixes
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getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a18, the don’t-plan-beta-releases-in-summer release. The major new feature here is ‘switch to default locale‘, support for en-US user interface labels even if you are running on a localized version of Firefox.
All of our tests pass on Firefox 3.6.8, so we are hoping that the Firebug automatic testbot will begin to show us “green” for 3.6 once we get it updated to 1.6a18.
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getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6a17. We’re aiming for b1 next week, and this time we mean it!
New in this release:
This release is dedicated to nkjoep for helping find the cause of issue 3200, a serious bug that only surfaced when an uncommon option is used.
The release also has lots of locale updates and bug fixes.
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Please follow up in the newsgroup.
Pedro Simonetti Garcia has been leading the Firebug Lite development effort and helping us plan for a merger of Firebug Lite and part of the Firebug for Firefox code base. He will be using this blog to post information about Firebug Lite releases and related issues.
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getfirebug.com has a new beta release of Firebug Lite 1.3.1b1. Lite is the Firebug for IE, Safari, Chrome, and Opera. Look for the Firebug icon in the lower corner of the web page, it’s minimized to start.
Some of the key changes by Pedro Simonetti Garcia:
Since Firebug Lite loads right in the Web page, installation is different from the extension based Firebug. Pedro has a great summary of the four channels and three installation mechanism in the new install instructions.
Please this beta release and report any problems to our bug list or the newsgroup.
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getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.6X.0a16, with a change the maxVersion so Firebug will install in Firefox 4.0b1. Just to set expectations, some platform bugs scheduled for 4.0b2 will prevent Firebug from working completely on Firefox 4.0b1. I also was not able to run our test suite on 4.0b1 because the extensions we use for testing would not install even after the maxVersion change was made. Nevertheless, we think most users will be successful with Firebug on Firefox 4.0b1 and we are keen to hear from the others 
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This release is dedicated to “tasoss” who manually tested Firebug 1.6 in all the Firefox 3.7 alpha builds for us. Thanks!
Fortunately this kind of work is no longer required. Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko, Andrew Halberstadt, Clint Talbert, Rob Campbell and other folks at Mozilla on bug 559466 integrated Firefox and Firebug automated testing. The Firebug test suite now runs on both the security/stability branch of Firefox (currently 3.6.7) and the development or trunk branch (currently or at least tomorrow, 4.0b2). You can see the results in the getfirebug.com TestBot results page. (Well, actually what you will see is that the 4.0 tests failed altogether today because of the number change mentioned above; a few kinks remain .
These automatic tests bring regressions or incompatible changes in the platform to everyone’s attention much sooner, so they can be addressed while the issues are still clear to the developers. After we get some experience with these tests, we may incorporate them in the platform checkin tests used to validate code changes.
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