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Firebug 1.2 Released

By Brennan Spies - Posted on August 25th, 2008
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Firebug, the latest version of the indispensable debugging utility for Firefox, has released version 1.2 of the plugin for Firefox 3.0.

What's New?

  • Selective Panel Enablement: You can now choose to enable any combination of Console (logging), Script (JavaScript debugging) and Net (Network monitoring).
  • Automatic activation of HTML, CSS, and DOM views when Firebug UI is visible/activated (since they require minimal overhead).
  • Ability to suspend/resume Firebug.
  • A new tooltip telling you which tab/page in Firefox has enabled Firebug.

John Resig, creator of jQuery and now lead on the Firebug team, gives an excellent overview on his blog. Resig points out the currently rather global nature of enabling certain Firebug features, the overhead of enabling them (especially Script, which slows down all JavaScript running in Firefox about 25%), and states that all of these issues are targets for the 1.3 release.

Use the Add-ons panel in Firefox to update your plugin or get it now.

The release notes are here.