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Firebug 1.11.0

Firebug team is proud to announce final Firebug 1.11!

Firebug 1.11 is compatible with Firefox 17-20

Let’s start with a list of developers who contributed to this version (generated from our source repository and issue list):

  • Jan Odvarko
  • Sebastian Zartner
  • Simon Lindholm
  • Florent Fayolle
  • Steven Roussey
  • Farshid Beheshti
  • Harutyun Amirjanyan
  • Bharath Thiruveedula
  • Nikhil Verma
  • Antanas Arvasevicius
  • Chris Coulson

FWG (Firebug Working Group) is also regularly rewarding developers using donations made by Firebug users. Note that you can support us by making a donation here, thanks!

 

If you’d like to contribute code read post about Hacking on Firebug

 

New Features

Here is a brief list of top ten new features introduced in this release. If you are interested in more details take a look at this list with descriptions and screenshots.

You can also read our Firebug 1.11 release notes.

  • SPDY Support
  • Performance Timing Visualization
  • CSS Query Selector Tool
  • New include() command
  • Observing window.postMessage()
  • Copy & Paste HTML
  • Styled Logging
  • Log Function Calls
  • Improved $() and $$() commands
  • Autocompletion for built-in properties

Statistics

Some numbers related to this release.

  • 127 issues fixed
  • 40 enhancements implemented
  • 114 working days (since 1.10 release)
  • 25 automated tests created
  • About 5M new downloads (since 1.10 release)
  • More than 3.3M average daily users and growing

 

Stay tuned and follow us on Twitter.

Please post feedback in the newsgroup, thanks.

 

Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

 

Firebug 1.11 beta 3

Firebug 1.11 beta 3 has been released.

Firebug 1.11 beta 3 fixes 11 issues

Firebug 1.11 beta 3 is compatible with Firefox 16-19
 

Downloading Firebug from AMO beta channel is recommended. See Development Channel section at the bottom of the page.

This is the last 1.11 beta and the final release will be available next week.

 

Please post feedback in the newsgroup, thanks.

Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

 

Firebug 1.11 beta 2

Firebug 1.11 beta 2 has been released.

Firebug 1.11 beta 2 fixes 6 issues
Firebug 1.11 beta 2 is compatible with Firefox 16-19
 

Downloading Firebug from AMO beta channel is recommended. See Development Channel section at the bottom of the page.

 

We are mostly focusing on regression bugs, but one little enhancement made it to this release. The way how console logs can be styled using %c formatting variable has been enhanced. You can now use more style formatters in one log.

console.log("%cred %cblue", "color:red", "color:blue");

See detailed explanation of this feature.

 

Please post feedback in the newsgroup, thanks.

Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko

 

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