clipped from: www.getfirebug.com Thanks to the 130+ people who commented thoughtfully on my previous blog about Firebug. I’m so excited about getting Firebug 1.0 out to you guys, and I’ve been working my tail off to get the beta in shape for a wider release. Today I have three big announcements to make.
The first announcement is in regards to Firebug’s licensing. As I was developing Firebug 1.0, I began to wonder if I should try to turn the project from a hobby into a business. When I proposed this idea on my blog, the response was very positive and reaffirmed my belief that Firebug could do well as a commercial product.
Here’s the news you’ve been waiting for. Today I am opening up the Firebug 1.0 beta to the public. A few dozen people have been testing Firebug for the last few weeks, and they have been enormously helpful in raising the quality of the builds. Bear in mind, this is still a “beta” in the old-fashioned sense, not the Web 2.0 “infinite beta” sense. The quality of the beta is good, but it is not perfect, so I would be grateful if you could report bugs as you find them. I hope to have the final Firebug 1.0 done by the end of December.
Finally, I have a new solution for people who have wanted to use Firebug’s console logging features when testing on Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari. Today I am also releasing the first public beta of Firebug Lite, a cross-browser JavaScript library you can use to embed a simplified Firebug console in your web pages.
With Firebug Lite, now you can freely call console.log() and its brethren for debugging in all browsers.
Visit http://www.getfirebug.com/lite.html to get Firebug Lite and learn how to use it.