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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 often 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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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:

• Option to use en-US locale
• First run page comes up on install or update.
• Support for Firefox 4.0
• getfirebug.com TestBot results page
• Command line available on all panels
• Net panel reports BFCache hits
• Command line completion rewrite
• implemented console.table
• Disabling break on next error and  debugger; keywords.
• forward and back arrows in the toolbar
• MozAfterPaint events now show up on the net panel time line
• Scrolling Panels Tab Bar.

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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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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• Display link to knownissues page if FF4.0
• Accessibility updates, esp around auto-complete issues
• Another attempt to get errors in the right window

And 13 bug fixes

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12 more bugs fixed.

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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New in this release:

• First run page comes up on install or update.
• Removed all the .DTD files, no more entity based localization.
• Console panel filtering buttons (error, warning, info, debug).
• Stack side panel for Script panel shows function argument names and values.
• More tweeks for command line completion.
• Script panel shows nicer message when it is inactive during page load.
• Changes to allow Firebug to work in Firefox 4.0b2pre (still many issues).

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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Some of the key changes by Pedro Simonetti Garcia:

• Many improvements to the ‘inline’ editor used for CSS and HTML, esp. for autocompletion and performance.
• Context menu support for Style and CSS panels
• A new Developer’s channel that loads Lite directly from SVN.

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.

jjb

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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