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Quick: Firediff and Firefocus updated for 5.0 support

kpdecker — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 02:05:15 +0000

Both Firediff and Firefocus have been updated to increase the target application support up to Firefox 5.0.

Both of these are available from the update stream on this site. New installations are recommended to use the Firediff and Firefocus projects on AMO as these will be more responsive to the march of Firefox releases.

Firebug Extension Updates: Firebug 1.6

kpdecker — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:23:48 +0000

As many of you are already aware, the recent release of Firebug 1.6 introduced some API changes that caused breakages within Firediff. To fix these some minor code changes within Firediff were necessary, thus the 1.1 release that has just been published.

Along with the updates for the new APIs, this version also includes:

Copy support
Bug fixes for Firebug detached mode
Change monitor context menu fixes
Slight adjustment to the colors used within the text diffs

There are a few support changes in this release. Rather than trying to support multiple versions of both Firebug and Gecko, official testing is limited to a single version of Firebug, 1.6, and as a consequence for Firebug 1.6 to a single version of Firefox, 3.6. This is simply due to the increased QA time that is required to test all of the permutations of Firebug version, Gecko version, and OS type. When updating for the changed APIs in Firebug 1.6 attempts were made to maintain compatibility with Firebug 1.5, but this configuration is no longer officially tested.

Since I was going to through the release process for Firediff I decided to release the 1.2 version of Firefocus as well. This version implements the uk-UA locale but is otherwise the same as 1.1.

Firediff 1.1 is available here on incaseofstairs and is currently under review on AMO. Firefocus 1.2 is available here on incaseofstairs and is currently under review on AMO.

Thanks to everyone who notified me of the breakage when 1.6 was released. It’s great to hear feedback from users and to hear that the project is in active use! As always please do not hesitate to let me know how the project is working for you, good or bad.

Firefocus

kpdecker — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:19:01 +0000

As part of my day job I recently needed to debug focus handling within a AJAXy web app and found that logging and visualizing of this was quite difficult. To assist with this task I spent some of my personal time developing Firefocus, a Firebug extension for tracking keyboard focus at the HTML node level within Firefox.

Firefocus provides the ability to log all focus and blur events to the console as well displaying the element which currently has focus on the HTML panel, particularly helpful for tracking down the nuisance element that managed to inject themselves in the tab order but are not displaying the focus status properly.

This extension supports Firebug 1.4 and higher and is available here.