Friday, January 26th, 2007
The Bug sets 1.0 on Fire
Category: Utility
Firebug 1.0 has reached a final release.
We know you have it installed in Firefox already, but if not, you know what to do.
Joe Hewitt released the final version with these words:
One year and twelve days later I am happy to announce that the leopard’s growl has been quieted to a purr, clearing the path for the final Firebug 1.0 to make its way in the world.
If you read this blog, that won’t mean much to you personally since you’re probably already using 1.0 beta. However, there are still tens, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people who are still using 0.4.1 and are going to get a very nice present the next time they restart Firefox.
Thanks to all the people who have supported Firebug during its infancy, especially those who have contributed new ideas and donations to the project. We’re just getting started here! If nothing else, I hope Firebug inspires the makers of other browsers to invest more time in development tools. The web development paradigm wants to evolve, but we can’t build the future with yesterday’s hammer.
Cheers again to Joe and team. 2.0 next January? Can’t wait to see what is in store.
Can’t live without it!
Well done Joe! Firebug is an Ajax developer’s best friend and it’s stunning how much functionality you elegantly pack into a neat little UI. Users are constantly stumbling across new features in Firebug!
absolutely indispensable. I have won so many programmers over to Firefox simply because of Firebug.
best tool ever.
Excellent guys! This is the bomb. I was having problems with the way-to-old version I had installed and popped over to their site to see about a fix and stumbled onto the 1.0. Lovin’ life :)
I just read the atricle mentioned here: http://ajaxian.com/archives/ajax-debugging-with-firebug
I had no idea about the performance profiler. This is awesome!
This is just an amazing add-on. It has saved me so much time. And Firebug Lite for IE/Safari/Opera makes debugging tolerable on those browsers.
Firebug, as well as Tidy are the most useful tools in my everyday life. David, where can you get Firebug Lite? I could always use help in debugging the mysteries of IE, haha!
I think the last time something this cool happened was when the general community made the switch to 5th-gen browsers. ;) I saw a demo of some of the new features yesterday, and it’s like Joe thought of all those “little things” - eg. being able to edit box model attributes live in-line by clicking a value (ie. top padding), and using your up/down arrow or page up/down keys to change them. Can’t thank him enough for all the work he’s put into Firebug.
I’d too definitely like to keep Firebug Lite on peoples radar so it too continues to get some love.
Best. Plugin. Ever.
Congrats and thanks to Joe. Great work!
AWESOME!!!
cheers
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well, 1.0, and still broken, _and_ it breaks AJAX. go firebug!
i gues working on linux isnt a requirement for a 1.0 release these days - maybe im just jealous of all you who can use this awesome tool..
cant wait till it works so i can donate :)
A phenomenal product I’ve recommended to all developers since it’s first appearance. Truly indispensable - we could not donate enough! Perhaps Joe should put a pitch in widget on his site, as should supporters who are so inclined!
FireBug is a must! Thanks.
Nothing short of awesome. Living in an ie world, its a major contributor for my team to run firefox.
You ppl can get the Firebug Lite at http://www.getfirebug.com/lite.html... I have not tried it yet, but that will be the first thing in the morning….
Not bad, but useless for debugging json and other “eval’d” scripts
firebug lite is nice. It’s obviously not full-featured. But the console functions work, and you are even able to call your custom JS functions through it.
My favorite part is that if i leave a console.log(’bla’); in the code, IE doesn’t crash anymore.
Well, I didnt like the Firbug Lite much…. partly coz I m used to the advanced features of the Firebug…. without them it is of little help
Firebug had made client side web development the best that it has ever been. Impeccable, remarkable, fantastic and wonderful. ;)