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New Devtools Peers: Jim Blandy and Alex Poirot

Please be advised, we have two new peers in the Firefox Developer Tools Module: Jim Blandy, our Remote Protocol author, has been added as a reviewer for the Debugger. Alex Poirot (aka “ochameau” on IRC) has been working with Paul on a new App Manager component for debugging apps on B2G. It should be landing […]

Pinchy Rediscovered

I had a funny moment this morning. I set up my Mac’s wireless keyboard and trackpad and was looking around for Firefox’ gesture preferences. I had setup Shift+Swipe-left / Swipe Right to switch tabs on my trackpad and am fairly used to that behavior. I did a search and found a link on Duck Duck […]

New DevTools peer: Nick Fitzgerald

We’ve added a new Module Peer to Firefox Developer Tools: Nick Fitzgerald aka @fitzgen. Please send him your patches for the Debugger and SourceMaps. He will review them. Congrats, Nick!

Howto Create a List of Bugs in a Blog Post

For the merging of Firefox 23, I created a list of bugs I attached to this blog. That became the basis of a post on Hacks describing the features in that release. If learning to use advanced search features in Bugzilla doesn’t sound like your kind of thing, don’t worry, you don’t have to read […]

#io13

I sat in on three sessions at Google IO 2013 yesterday. Memory Lane with Chrome Devtools and GMail was the first. The presenters showed off their Heap Tracking Profiler and Memory Tracking tool in the Timeline and explained how to use them to track down a leaky DOM node. It was a practical application of […]

Firefox 23 Developer Tools Fixes

Bug ID Summary 581352 Console HTTP output should make JSON viewable as objects 586125 “””Copy”” “”Select All”” etc. popup menu item in the Web Console displays keyboard shortcuts 587757 Implement Browser Console 638953 Cannot copy keys or values in web console object inspector 640225 Make Property Panels Editable 688400 Web Console throws a TypeError when […]

Bookmarks Deiconizer Deprecation and Fix

EVEN NEWER UPDATE, Jan 8, 2018:  You probably came here searching for antennasoft.net/robcee/bookmarks-deiconizer. It’s gone. BUT, I just checked to see if these instructions work on newer versions of Firefox (post 56), and the selectors are still valid. I had to include the trick to include the drop-down marker on folders for the Mac version […]