After 6 months waiting Firebug 1.2 is out.

Firebug 1.2x stable release support all major Firefox version (Firefox 2.0.0.14 > Firefox 3 RC but not recommended for Firefox 3.0b5) . Compatible with Latest Firefox 3 RC 1.

Download Firebug 1.2x

• Firebug 1.2x

Whats new in Firebug 1.2x

Latest version is more friendly and all suppose to be disabled behaviour is turn off by default. This new change will make sure that you wont have problem with high Ajax framework website (i.e., Google Gmail, Msn Live).

• Improve performance - most of the automate HTTP reporting is disabled by default ( for all site).
• Firebug Script and Net panels disabled by default.
• More accurate Net reporting and Faster Javascript Debugging.

Check out firebug 1.2 release notes,screenshot, bug fixes & improvement.

Firebug Screenshot

Firebug 1.2 on Firefox 3 RC1.

Firebug Console

Firebug Net Panel Disabled by Default

Firebug Net Panel Enabled

Firebug JIT Script Debugger

Firebug CSS Panel

Firebug HTML Panel

Firebug 1.2x Bug Fixes & Improvements

1. Issue 1: Reload external Firebug window while its tab is hidden closes the window
2. Issue 2: Can’t set breakpoints in code called by unload event
3. Issue 4: Visiting error page causes external Firebug window to close itself
4. Issue 7 Long URLs in XHR spy rows should be cropped
5. Issue 14: Programatically disable firebug log from Javascript
6. Issue 38: console.group should allow optional collapse
7. Issue 43: Edit CSS behaviour - appending styles to the dom is unexpected. Contribution by tonygentilcore
8. Issue 65 show HTTP Status code on NET response
9. Issue 183: Configurable maximum output size
10. Issue 186 Only one line in net monitor for multiple xhr post requests
11. Issue 202 Clicking status bar error warning closes firebug
12. Issue 215 Display total page load time
13. Issue 216 Improve network monitor to include server-side processing time
14. Issue 266 PUT & DELETE requests appear as POST requests in firebug
15. Issue 316 Show HTTP request method and request content in Firebugs “Net” tab
16. Issue 325 PUT operations do not show contained entity in Net tab
17. Issue 327 “Net” tab: lowercase b for bytes (instead of B)
18. Issue 331 XHR resolves relative URIs to resource:// protocol
19. Issue 346 Fix Net Panel timings
20. Issue 349 Local file XHR events not listed in console
21. Issue 359 No entry in the Net tab for XHR when response content length is 0
22. Issue 361: Edit button gets stuck when reloading page whilst editing CSS. Contribution by tonygentilcore
23. Issue 393: Text overlayed on text in script editor window.
24. Issue 401 Net tab does not consider “application/javascript” a JS MIME type
25. Issue 402 Net tab tries to show previews of non-images with image file extensions
26. Issue 404 UI change to help users activate expensive debugging features only when they need them.
27. Issue 405 The Net panel consumes a lot of memory if there is a lot of XHR activity without page reload.
28. Issue 414 XHR Breaks When Using Firebug 1.1 beta when > 1 HTTP 302 Redirect Is Returned
29. Issue 421 onLoad of XHRSpyListener does not fire correctly
30. Issue 430 about:blank pages always show firebug as enabled
31. Issue 468 [feature request] fast [enable -> inspect element -> disable] ergonomy
32. Issue 474: base href applied to scripts
33. Issue 475 Show Return Code (HTTP HEADER-Response)
34. Issue 503 disable doesn’t work properly
35. Issue 567: Slow script warning in debugger.js on some pages
36. Issue 573: setting css background-color affects layout inspector. Contribution by tonygentilcore
37. Issue 583 Javascript console cannot work with Firefox 3 beta5
38. issue 599, Firebug Inspect Outline Does Not Show Up Over Web Page Elements
39. Issue 601 XHR in console shows stale/cached output
40. Issue 618: HTML: tab order, fixed by setting order properties on side panels.
41. Issue 619: Reopening firebug results in grey DOM, Layout or Style Pane, fixed by forceUpdate on syncSidePanel.
42. Issue 634 XHR request details not showing up
43. Issue 637 $ FireBug function overwrites existing $ function
44. Issue 659: firebug.js:1473 - “this.context.browser is undefined”
45. Issue 676 Exception in firebug-cache.js when visiting http://www.takebacktheweb.org/CaE.html
46. Issue 679 Firebug 1.2.0a27X blocking most AJAX calls
47. Issue 690 New zh-CN local file for Firebug 1.2

External Links

• Firebug 1.2x Release Notes
• Firebug at Google Code
• Official Firebug Website
• YslowYSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development too

I really lost without Firebug. Googling around I found this Firebug 1.1.0b10. Its compatible with Firefox 3.0b1, 3.0b2, 3.0b3, 3.0b4 & Latest 3.0b5 (beta 5) . Until Joe Hewitt release Firebug 1.1 (probably for firefox 3 release) You can try this Firebug 1.1 beta, download it at fireclipse. It working hu ho.

Excerpt from fireclipse

Firebug 1.1 is Firebug 1.05 by Joe Hewitt with enhancements and bug fixes by John J. Barton (IBM Almaden) and Max Stepanov (aptana)

The file is an XPI file that will add-on to Firefox as Firebug v1.1. Firefox’s updater will allow you to get new experimental versions until Firebug 1.1 is official.

Download

• Firebug Release Archive

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• Firefox 2.0.0.12 Urgent Security Release

External Links

• Firebug 1.10b Overview
• Official Firebug
• Firebug Google Group