Overview of Firebug 1.6
Firebug 1.6 supports Firefox 3.6
Console and Command Line
- Command line available on all panels
- New API for the console object: console.table()
- Console allows to filter its content
- Improved auto-completion now the best of all
- Logging of cut/copy/paste events
- Support for XPath console logging
- Descriptive background colors for console messages
HTML
- Support for expand All through a context menu or by pressing ‘*’
- When copying XPath, namespace is included (if any)
- Improved display of iframes
- DOCTYPE is now also displayed
- Scrollable Breadcrumbs
- Better keyboard navigation
CSS
- Better search match highlighting
- SVG CSS autocomplete
- Support for copying CSS declarations
- Folding for computed styles
- Auto-completion for “!important”
Script
- Disabling break on next error
- The stack panel now displays argument names and values + support for expanding/collapsing
- Script Panel shows nicer message when it is inactive during page load
- Improved presentation of the scope chain in the Script panel Watch side panel
- Save and restore breakpoints across Firefox sessions
- Script panel file list has auto scroll button and shows filtering text
DOM
- Show the prototype, constructor, and __proto__ properties of objects
- localStorage and sessionStorage now also displayed
- Better search match highlighting
Net
- BF Cache reads are also reported
- MozAfterPaint events displayed in the timeline
- SVG pretty print in the net panel
- Better search match highlighting
Toolbars and Menus
- Back and Forward arrows
- Scrolling Panels tab Bar
- New option to use en-US locale
Miscellaneous
- First Run Page now displayed when new Firebug version is installed
- TestBot result page displaying results from automated testing
- Known issue page
- Visual indication for search field not finding any matches
- Support for private browsing mode
- Filterable file location menus
- Locale updates + one new language
- New Firebug icon
- Editor configurations improvements