Firebug 1.12 Release Notes

Download Sites

• Mozilla Addons Firebug page
• Releases overview page
• Firebug 1.13 (in alpha phase) (see Firebug.next)
• Firebug 1.12 (current stable)
• Firebug 1.11 (previous release)

Features and changes

Console Panel

• Resetting all options includes include aliases
• HTML form elements now show the current value besides the default one
• Precision using the %f pattern in Console API is now considered
• Console messages are grouped
• Added preference to disable message grouping

Command Line

• Completion List Popup is now displayed by default also on Linux
• Auto-completion includes global names declared in same line
• Improved help command to include tips
• Added Auto-completion for Command Line API
• include command now has "jquery" as default alias
• Added context menu option Use in Command Line to objects in different panels
• Multiple filters can be selected
• Result of last command is stored in $_
• Implemented getEventListeners() command
• Command Line is focused when switching to the Console panel
• Improved look and feel of the Completion List Popup

HTML Panel

• Replaced mutation events by mutation observers
• iframes now have context menu entries for reloading and opening them in a new tab
• Event logging can be enabled for different event types individually
• Split Copy XPath option into one for copying the relative and one for the absolute XPath

CSS Panel

• Replaced mutation events by mutation observers
• CSS properties can be copied
• @media, @supports, @page, @-moz-keyframes and @-moz-document rules are now displayed
• Added Shift + Page Up/Page Down to increase/decrease values by 100

Selectors Side Panel

• Multiple selector trials can now be added at the same time
• "Try a selector..." field is now fixed at the top
• Scrolling is persisted

Script Panel

• Info is shown describing why tab switching and opening Firebug is slow
• Added a message that JSD1 is removed in Firefox 31

Stack Side Panel

• Added option to toggle arguments display

Net Panel

• Flash filter was changed into Plugins filter and now covers Flash and Silverlight file requests
• Added Fonts filter
• Summaries now have tooltips
• Improved timings infotip display
• Multiple filters can be selected
• Max-Age shown for cookies
• Deletion of cookies is highlighted
• Requests can be copied as cURL
• Persistence can be set automatically

Cookies Panel

• Added Raw Size column
• Persistence can be set automatically

API

• Added support for hierarchical menus

Miscellaneous

• Clearing the Activation List requires a confirmation now
• Armed Break On ... features are now more obvious
• Side panels can be minimized
• Mac OS skin improved

You may also want to see the complete list of enhancements of Firebug 1.12.

Bug Fixes

Installation

• Add-on bar isn't displayed by default anymore

Console Panel

• Removed broken Show External Errors option
• Clearing console fixed for throwy proxies
• Corrected display of XHR request logs
• Text is not copied with line breaks anymore
• Fixed infinite requests
• Escaping the percentage sign in Console API doesn't junk the rest of the arguments anymore
• When searching logs inside groups are now also displayed
• Undefined properties are listed
• Filtering now also displays logs inside groups
• Doesn't activate JSD anymore
• Chrome errors are not logged to the console anymore
• Log messages with same name as the group they are in are not grouped anymore
• Fixed horizontal scrolling in tables
• Log message grouping doesn't happen on clearing anymore
• performance.timing log is now displayed correctly again
• Cross-domain log messages are displayed again
• Fixed conflict with FirePHP log messages
• Calling Console API methods on generators don't resume them anymore
• include() doesn't fail anymore when called when having no alias
• Fixed Console API for JavaScript injected by content scripts
• console object is not overwritten anymore when the Console panel is disabled

Command Line

• Number values are auto-suggested again
• include only allows to include JavaScript now
• Improved speed of auto-completion for large arrays
• Improved speed of auto-completion
• Content Security Policy doesn't block executing expressions anymore
• Constructor functions are shown in auto-completion
• $x now raises an error when it's called with a wrong parameter
• Fixed syntax highlighting in Firefox 28

Inspector

• Shortcut Ctrl + Shift + C doesn't conflict with DevTools anymore

HTML Panel

• Quick Info Box can be moved again under Linux
• Fixed deleting elements
• RTL character doesn't mess up the display anymore
• XPaths are copied case-sensitive from XML documents
• Fixed scrolling to inspected element when Show Whitespace is enabled
• Putting capital letters on attribute names doesn't duplicate them anymore
• Fixed problems on updating every 29ms or less

Style Side Panel

• Placeholder pseudo-element rules are displayed again
• Select-editing of fonts works correctly again
• Pseudo-elements moved to the bottom
• Fixed context menu for pages without CSS
• Pseudo-elements are displayed again

Computed Side Panel

• Fixed display of source links

Layout Side Panel

• Reduced CPU usage when the Layout side panel is selected

CSS Panel

• Browser doesn't hang anymore on pages with a lot of iframes
• @page rules no longer cause panel display problems
• Panel displays contents after reload
• Location Menu doesn't disappear anymore
• Context menu entry Get Matching Elements isn't shown for @-rules anymore
• Color display setting now also affects color names
• Location button is also displayed when there are just style sheets within frames
• Location Menu is also displayed when there are just stylesheets in frames
• Removing style sheets dynamically doesn't break the CSS panel anymore
• Copying a style sheet declaration now copies valid CSS
• Fixed preview of currentcolor
• Color display setting now also affects color names in shorthand properties

DOM Panel

• Fixed display of @page CSS rules
• @supports and @-moz-document CSS rules are now displayed
• Fixed setting breakpoints for long string properties
• Corrected "N more..." for attributes
• Fixed closure inspection broken in Firefox 27.0

Script Panel

• Changed directive for sourceURL to also allow //# sourceURL
• Fixed display of scripts in Location Menu when they contain special characters
• Fixed @sourceURL for eval()'ed scripts
• Debugger doesn't overwrite window.toString() anymore
• setTimeout()s and setInterval()s are now stopped when the debugger is stopped

Net Panel

• Security column of cookies is now filled correctly
• Fixed network requests stuck in progress when opening them in new tab
• Request body is shown for PATCH requests
• Firebug does not influence caching of XHRs of the same URL anymore
• JavaScript filter works for files with incorrect MIME type
• Size of cached requests is now displayed correctly again

Cookies Panel

• Cookies can now be removed after a page reload
• Fixed encoding of cookies with '+' in their value
• Remove Cookies now only removes displayed cookies
• Editing cookie with unescaped characters doesn't escape them anymore

Search Field

• Search Field now resizes with the text size

Miscellaneous

• Tools menu in SeaMonkey is shown again
• Twisties are now vertically correctly displayed
• Current annotation is added again when resetting the options
• Fixed check for Firebug menu entry in View menu
• Localizations with quotes don't break UI anymore
• Icons are displayed again on machines with special SVG file configurations
• Fixed the slow down on tab switching by a workaround
• Added warning that JSD slows down the browser and made other changes to mitigate this effect
• Fixed compatibility with Firefox 30
• Removed deprecated Attr.ownerElement removed in Firefox 29

You may also want to have a look at the complete list of bug fixes of Firebug 1.12.

Releases

Version	Release Date
Bug fix releases
1.12.8	2014-04-11
1.12.7	2014-03-05
1.12.6	2014-01-20
1.12.5	2013-11-21
1.12.4	2013-10-21
1.12.3	2013-10-05
1.12.2	2013-09-25
1.12.1	2013-09-04
Major release
1.12.0	2013-08-21
1.12.0b6	2013-07-26
1.12.0b5	2013-07-26
1.12.0b4	2013-07-19
1.12.0b3	2013-07-12
1.12.0b2	2013-07-05
1.12.0b1	2013-06-28
1.12.0a8	2013-06-14
1.12.0a7	2013-05-31
1.12.0a6	2013-05-17
1.12.0a5	2013-05-03
1.12.0a4	2013-04-05
1.12.0a3	2013-02-22
1.12.0a2	2013-02-01
1.12.0a1	2013-01-11

Older versions

• Firebug 1.11
• Firebug 1.10
• Firebug 1.9
• Firebug 1.8
• Firebug 1.7
• Firebug 1.6
• Firebug 1.5
• Firebug 1.4
• Firebug 1.3
• Firebug 1.2
• Firebug 1.1

See also

• Release notes for current version
• Firebug 1.11