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The latest release is available on the front page.

Firebug 1.0.1

  1. Support escaping the % sign in console.log() calls using %%
  2. Support "Find Next" in the CSS tab
  3. Fixed problem causing inconsistent breakpoint triggering
  4. Deleting a disabled CSS property will work properly
  5. Fixed bug that prevented editing of DOM properties with numeric values
  6. Inserted warning about incompatibility with Sothink SWF Catcher extension
  7. Fixed incompatibility with HTML Validator extension

Firebug 1.0 Betas

  • Beta 10

    This release has the following changes:

    1. Copying an error now includes the file and line number
    2. Added "copy" command line function, to copy to clipboard.

  • Beta 9

    This release has the following changes:

    1. Added the option to show computed style instead of the cascaded style (see the Options menu in the Style tab)
    2. Using the back button while Firebug is enabled is super-fast again, because Firebug no longer disables the "bfcache" (thanks to Sylvain Pasch for the patch)
    3. Fixed bug that prevented showing the proper object in DOM tab when clicking object links in the Console
    4. Fixed bug that caused same-text searches to fail when switching between scripts
    5. Fixed bug that prevented the HTML editor from being the correct width when there is horizontal scrolling
    6. Fixed bug that avoids chaos on startup when default panel name is unknown
    7. Switched the keyboard shortcut for resuming execution from F5 to F8
    8. Properly hide some JavaScript warnings that slipped through the filter

  • Beta 8

    This release has the following changes:

    1. Restored rulers and guides, which I broke in beta 7
    2. Display CSS rules contained within a @media block
    3. Removed locales - going with just English due to popular demand

  • Beta 7

    This release has the following changes:

    1. Support for inspecting inside of framesets (and no more flickering)
    2. In the Net tab, expanded info his properly hidden when switching the view filter
    3. Support for showing tooltips in views with horizontal scrolling
    4. Added new column to profiler reports showing the percentage of overall time per function
    5. May have fixed crash on exit that some have reported (but I can't reproduce)
    6. Added localizations for es-ES (Spanish) and nl-NL (Dutch)

  • Beta 6

    This release has the following changes:

    1. Dramatically accelerated the time it takes to set and remove breakpoints
    2. Fixed bug that prevented clicking the disabled status bar icon from opening Firebug
    3. Improved accuracy of calculating the position of element outlines
    4. Prevent extremely long post data (likely uploaded files) from being displayed, and freezing up Firefox in the process
    5. Disabled the Inspect Element context menu when Firebug is disabled
    6. Fixed crasher when shutting down Firefox after setting breakpoints
    7. Fixed bug that caused HTML mutation not to appear for frames
    8. Includes localization for zh-TW (Taiwanese)

  • Beta 5

    This release has the following changes:

    1. Fixed bug that caused some script files to displaying as blank
    2. Fixed bug that caused XMLHttpRequests made in framesets and popups to fail
    3. Support wrapping for long lines in the console
    4. The HTML/CSS Edit button no longer gets stuck if you close tab while editing
    5. Control+Clicking on the status bar will open Firebug in a new window
    6. Added option to always open Firebug in a new window
    7. Added option to copy request headers
    8. Added option to copy post arguments as a GETtable URL
    9. Updated version numbers to support Flock
    10. Added support for Firefox extension updates so you will get all future beta updates automatically (or by using "Find Updates" in Add-ons window)

  • Beta 4

    This release has the following changes:

    1. CSS import rules are displayed with link to the imported style sheet
    2. Edit button added to the HTML toolbar to be consisted with the CSS tab
    3. The HTML editor has a streamlined UI
    4. HTML body elements can now be edited, but using innerHTML instead of outerHTML (which won't work)
    5. Using the arrow keys while inspecting will draw the outline around the current element
    6. After editing HTML, whitespace text nodes will not be wrongly inserted in the view
    7. Ubuntu Linux now displays the correct theme graphics
    8. On Mac OS X, the button to toggle the large command line is no longer obscured in the external Firebug window
    9. Added a link to the FAQ for the very common problem people are having with the Style tab not working

  • Beta 3

    This release has the following changes:

    1. Implemented direct CSS stylesheet editing (see new Edit button in main CSS tab)
    2. Fixed bug that broke arrow key navigation in the HTML editor

  • Beta 2

    This release has the following changes:

    1. Fixed a bug that broke XMLHttpRequests made from inside frames (Google Reader works now)
    2. Added traditional keyboard navigation to the HTML tab
    3. Added a context menu item to the Net tab for stopping the loading of a request
    4. Made a few other tiny changes that should improve stability

  • Beta 1

    This is the first public beta release.

Firebug Lite 1.0

The cross-browser JavaScript library that adds the Firebug console to any web page. The latest release is available on the Firebug Lite page.

  • Beta 1

    This is the first public beta release.

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