Firebug 1.3.0 Final Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firebug 1.3.0 Final Released

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Post by amobilebiz » Thu, Jan 08, 2009, 12:55 AM UTC

jpcx01 wrote: post #8

Arggg.. no Firefox 3.1 support Firefox plugin API really needs an overhaul. It shouldn't be assumed that everything breaks on every point release. Firefox needs to come up with an API going forward and stay backwards compatible till the next full version number. I think Chrome is going to lead the way here. Their plugin strategy seems to be based off fixing the mis-steps of firefox.

You can download the Alpha 1.4 version of Firebug for Firefox 3.1 support.

Re: Firebug 1.3.0 Final Released

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Post by smakz » Thu, Jan 08, 2009, 1:05 AM UTC

Some other tools I use day to day when working on websites:

Measure it - adds a ruler to FF for pixel pushing: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/539

Web Developer Toolbar - adds a whole bunch of inspector type stuff https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

Color Picker - Lets you get the color of a pixel by clicking on it https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271

Re: Firebug 1.3.0 Final Released

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Post by sh1mmer » Thu, Jan 08, 2009, 4:43 AM UTC

bprater wrote: post #2

Don't forget to nab the UJS plug-in for it: http://remi.org/2009/01/06/using-firebug-to-debug-unobtrusiv... Now you don't have to guess what events were bound to which elements!

This reminds me of something I wrote to do this with YUI.

http://kid666.com/yui-event-list-bookmarklet/

I also wrote a rudimentary Firebug plugin but yours looks way more slick :)

Re: Firebug 1.3.0 Final Released

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Post by catch23 » Thu, Jan 08, 2009, 7:12 PM UTC

jpcx01 wrote: post #8

Arggg.. no Firefox 3.1 support Firefox plugin API really needs an overhaul. It shouldn't be assumed that everything breaks on every point release. Firefox needs to come up with an API going forward and stay backwards compatible till the next full version number. I think Chrome is going to lead the way here. Their plugin strategy seems to be based off fixing the mis-steps of firefox.

sorry to say this, but I think their API is great. They are innovating, and innovating requires breaking something. If the devs can't keep up, they shouldn't be creating extensions in the first place. Same could be said of iPhone development as well... it just so happens that the cool platforms tend to have more underlying changes than static platforms aka windows. (and even under windows, development can be shaky if you're doing stuff in .net)

EDIT: I'd also like to add that this version of Firebug actually does work in FF3.1. It's only that in their install.rdf file, they specified 3.0.*. I changed it to 3.1b2pre and re-built the extension and it seems to work great under Minefield. I think they put the version restriction to prevent people from reporting bugs for the still beta FF3.1.