Firebug 1.2 and beyond

Firebug has been in active development and has recently reached stable version 1.2.1. If you are using anything lower then 1.2 then I would highly recommend you upgrade to 1.2.1 release which is listed on the https://addons.mozilla.org site here (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843).

In other news I've been trying to keep on top of things. http://getfirebug.com is back up and running. There's still a broken "blog" link. (Note to self: report this to the firebug developers) The site has gotten a number of updates and now shows links and information about 1.2 release. While checking the site out today I noticed a ton of new information and sections. It has been some time since I visited the site. There's brand new Documentation (http://getfirebug.com/docs.html) and Extensions (http://getfirebug.com/extensions/index.html) pages that provide a ton of information and links. There's also a releases page that has links to alpha builds for the brave ones. I just installed 1.3a2 build.

Points of interest:

http://groups.google.com/group/firebug - this is the main Firebug discussion group. It has a lot of activity. It's also where developers interact with the users and announce new releases and bug fixes. It's also the starting point to ask questions before submitting bug reports.
http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group - this is the discussion group of the Firebug Working Group (i.e. Firebug core dev team). It has general news items that developers share with the community.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firebug/WeeklyUpdates - is the official location of Weekly Update meeting reports/summaries. I highly recommend it for those that want to know what's going on and where things are heading.

I am glad to see a lot of activity happening around Firebug. I am also excited to see Mozilla stepping in and offering help with getting better integration between Firefox and Firebug.

P.S. Microsoft has posted a ton of stuff on their Internet Explorer (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/) 8 progress and is actively integrating Firebug like functionality directly into Internet Explorer 8. They call it Developer Tools (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/03/developer-tools-in-internet-explorer-8-beta-2.aspx). Some of the interesting items include integrated JavaScript debugging (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848892(VS.85).aspx) and profiling (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/11/introducing-the-ie8-developer-tools-jscript-profiler.aspx) support.

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