Web Developer for Firefox History

Version 1.1.9

January 5, 2011

  • Added support for Firefox 4
  • Set the 'Expires' value one day into the future by default for the 'Add Cookie...' feature
  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Outline Images With Adjusted Dimensons' did not work with sizes with units specified
    • 'Show Hidden Elements' did not show hidden form elements
    • 'View Style Information' was vulnerable to a cross site scripting attack
    • Z-index used for features which added elements to the page needed to be increased

Version 1.1.8

June 30, 2009

  • Combined the Firefox and Seamonkey versions of the extension
  • Fixed issues:
    • 'View Generated Source' did not work

Version 1.1.7

June 29, 2009

  • Added support for Firefox 3.5

Version 1.1.6

May 19, 2008

  • Added an identifier attribute to generated pages
  • Added support for Firefox 3 builds newer than Beta 5
  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Clear All Private Data' did not work
    • 'Display Anchors' linked to the wrong URL when a base HREF is set
    • 'View Document Outline' did not support images in headings
    • Keyboard shortcuts did not toggle features correctly
  • Various minor code fixes

Version 1.1.5

March 16, 2008

  • Added support for Firefox 3
  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Display Element Information' and 'View Style Information' could change the page when clicking
    • 'Display Form Details' did not disable correctly on XHTML pages
    • Icons did not display in the customize toolbar dialog
  • Removed 'Validate Local Accessibility' as it no longer worked
  • Optimized the code
  • Various minor code fixes

Version 1.1.4

May 10, 2007

  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Add Cookie' did not work
    • 'Edit Cookie' did not work in non-English locales
    • 'Outline Tables' stayed checked when the page refreshed

Version 1.1.3

January 31, 2007

  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Disable Meta Redirects' did not work with multiple tabs
    • The element information toolbar did not show and hide correctly

Version 1.1.2

January 19, 2007

  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Display Line Guides' and 'Display Ruler' did not enable and disable correctly when switching tabs
    • 'Edit CSS' lost all styles when the page was refreshed
    • 'Remove Maximum Lengths' did not work
    • Color information was not output correctly
  • Various minor code fixes

Version 1.1.1

January 12, 2007

  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Edit CSS' and 'View CSS' did not support some compressed content
    • Certain features did not enable and disable correctly
    • Resizing the dashboard could break the browser layout
  • Various minor code fixes

Version 1.1

January 8, 2007

  • Added a status icon that indicates whether there are CSS errors on the page
  • Added close buttons to all the extension toolbars
  • Added support for displaying the compressed and uncompressed file sizes in 'View Document Size'
  • Added support for entering the ruler dimensions for the 'Display Ruler' feature
  • Added support for explaining why certain features are unavailable
  • Added support for saving the viewport resizing option
  • Added support for the 'ping' attribute to 'Display Link Details'
  • Added support for using multiple Web Developer sidebars at the same time
  • Added the features
    • Disable Proxy
    • Disable Strict JavaScript Warnings
    • Display Abbreviations
    • Display Page Magnifier
    • Display Page Validation
    • Outline Images With Oversized Dimensions
    • Outline Links With Ping Attributes
    • Outline Table Captions
    • Validate Local Accessibility
  • Changed the JavaScript status icon when JavaScript is disabled
  • Improved the 'Edit CSS' feature
    • Added Seamonkey support
    • Added search functionality
  • Improved the 'Edit HTML' feature
    • Added Seamonkey support
    • Added search functionality
  • Improved the 'View Cookie Information' feature
    • Added support for deleting cookies
    • Added support for editing cookies
  • Improved the 'View Style Information' feature
    • Added support for syntax highlighting
    • Allowed the path to the highlighted element to be copied
  • Improved the design of the output of the features
  • Fixed issues:
    • 'View Color Information' did not display some colors correctly
    • 'View Document Size' did not include alternate style sheets
    • 'View Document Size' did not include objects
    • 'View Document Size' did not work on pages that link directly to images and objects
    • 'View JavaScript Information' did not handle GZIP encoded files properly
    • 'View Source With...' truncated large local files
    • 'View Style Information' did not show color information in hexadecimal format
    • Image features did not work correctly with images with only one dimension specified
    • Memory leaks
  • Optimized the code
  • Various minor code fixes

Version 1.0.2

January 31, 2006

  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Reset All' does not work in 'Edit CSS'
    • 'View CSS' and 'View JavaScript' sometimes outputs the source all on one line
    • 'View Document Size' does not include imported style sheets
    • View source in an external application duplicates a local file

Version 1.0.1

January 17, 2006

  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Display Stack Levels' showed an unreponsive script message when applied with other features
    • 'View Document Size' included a repeated style sheet more than once
    • Changing the sidebar font size in the options did not work
    • Checking 'Do not ask for confirmation in the future' in the confirmation dialogs did not work
    • CSS features did not work with style sheets linked with processing instructions
    • The toolbar could not be restored if it was hidden in a previous version
    • Tools did not encode ampersands correctly
  • 'Outline Positioned Elements' now uses unique colors

Version 1.0

December 31, 2005

  • Added a 'Help' link
  • Added an option for hiding the informational dialogs
  • Added an option to open the DOM Inspector in the sidebar
  • Added an option to open the JavaScript console in the sidebar
  • Added confirmation dialogs for all the permanent clearing and deleting features
  • Added support for changing the generated text size
  • Added support for configuring the 'Validate Local HTML' and 'Validate Local CSS' settings
  • Added support for easier toggling of 'Show element names when outlining elements'
  • Added support for Flock
  • Added support for opening the page in another application
  • Added support for retrieving file contents from the cache rather than a new request
  • Added the features:
    • Add Cookie
    • Clear All Private Data
    • Convert Select Elements To Text Inputs
    • Delete Path Cookies
    • Disable External Site Images
    • Disable Meta Redirects
    • Disable Minimum Font Size
    • Disable Print Styles
    • Display Alt Attributes
    • Display Div Order
    • Display Element Information
    • Display Line Guides
    • Display Object Information
    • Display Ruler
    • Display Stack Levels
    • Display Table Depth
    • Display Table Information
    • Display Title Attributes
    • Edit HTML
    • Enable Form Fields
    • Make Frames Resizable
    • Make Images Full Size
    • Outline All Images
    • Outline Background Images
    • Outline External Links
    • Outline Headings
    • Outline Positioned Elements
    • Show Hidden Elements
    • Show Window Chrome
    • Small Screen Rendering
    • View Anchor Information
    • View Color Information
    • View Document Outline
    • View Document Size
    • View Generated Source
    • View Meta Tag Information
  • 'Display CSS By Media Type' now supports persisting
  • Improved the 'Display Form Details' feature:
    • Checkbox and radio button values are now displayed
  • Improved the 'View Form Information' feature:
    • Added maxlength and size
    • Added the element index
    • Checkbox and radio button state are now displayed
  • Improved the 'View Source' feature:
    • Added a menu for frames
    • Added support for viewing the source in an external editor
  • Improved the resize features:
    • Added support for wildcards which do not change that dimension in 'Custom Size'
    • Added viewport options
  • Improved the view information results:
    • Added support for disabling the tidying of the view information results
    • Added support for sorting the view information result tables by column
  • Removed the 'W3C Documents'
  • Replaced 'Display Link Paths' feature with 'Display Link Details'
  • Replaced the 'Outline Selected Element' feature with 'Outline Current Element'
  • Toolbar menus now work like the Bookmarks Toolbar
  • 'Validate Feed' now uses the W3C validator
  • 'View Image Information' now displays alt and title attributes
  • Tidied the menus
  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Convert GETs To POSTs' did not work when a form does not specify a method
    • 'Disable Images' did not work in Firefox 1.5
    • 'Display CSS By Media Type' broke print preview
    • 'Display CSS By Media Type' ignored stylesheets with no specified media type
    • 'Display Id & Class Details' did not show id attributes for tables
    • 'Display Image Dimensions' did not work with images without dimension attributes in the HTML
    • 'Edit CSS' did not take the media attribute of a style sheet into account
    • 'Edit CSS' polling is not disabled when the interval is set to zero
    • 'Enable Auto Completion' only checked for auto completion being disabled on forms not form elements
    • 'Find Broken Images' did not work properly when the cache is disabled
    • Keyboard shortcuts could not be empty
    • Keyboard shortcuts for a feature still worked when the feature was disabled
    • Options dialog lost values after resetting
    • 'Outline Tables' and 'Outline Table Cells' did not work with tables with border collapse turned on
    • Switching to an alternate style sheet was not reflected in the CSS features
    • The browser position changed when resizing
    • Toggling the toolbar from the keyboard shortcut behaved differently to toggling the toolbar from the 'View' menu
    • 'Validate Local HTML' did not handle character encoding correctly
    • 'Validate Local HTML' froze the browser when used on a page entirely generated by document.write()
    • 'View Cookie Information' did not take the cookie path into account
    • 'View CSS' only displayed the first of multiple imported style sheets
    • 'View Form Information' did not display image input elements
    • 'View Image Information' did not display images on input elements
    • 'Visited Links' toggled the link status rather than changing it
  • Optimized the code
  • Various minor code fixes

Version 0.9.4

September 12, 2005

  • Added Firefox 1.5 compatibility

Version 0.9.3

January 29, 2005

  • Added update notification support
  • Improved localization:
    • Default 'Tools' feature descriptions are now localizable
    • Options now support complex strings for languages with two byte characters
  • Fixed issues:
    • CSS features mistakenly picked up style sheets added by the extension
    • 'Edit CSS' applied the style sheets in a different order to the page
    • Editing the 'Tools' in 'Options' threw a JavaScript exception
    • Image file sizes did not display for images loaded from files rather than URLs
    • Keyboard shortcuts were reset when a new window was opened
    • 'Populate Form Fields' did not work with 'Display Form Details'
    • 'View Page Information' did not work on pages with frames
    • 'View Style Information' did not always work the first time when opening in the sidebar
    • 'Visited Links' features threw a JavaScript exception
  • Various minor code fixes

Version 0.9.2

January 2, 2005

  • 'View Response Headers' now displays the response code and text
  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Display Anchors' did not display anchors specified with a name attribute
    • JavaScript icon did not indicate warnings or errors after the page finished loading
    • 'Validate Local HTML' did not set the correct character encoding
  • Various minor code fixes

Version 0.9.1

December 19, 2004

  • Disabling individual style sheets now allows disabling of style sheets with any media type
  • 'Display Form Details' now displays autocomplete and enctype attributes
  • 'View Image Information' now also displays the file size
  • Fixed issues:
    • Disabling style sheets included from an XML processing instruction threw a JavaScript exception
    • 'Enable Auto Completion' was case sensitive
    • Features did not persist properly across frames
    • JavaScript icon always indicated there was a warning even when there was no warning
    • 'Populate Form Fields' did not populate fields without a type attribute
    • Saving CSS did not truncate the file
    • 'View Image Information' displayed duplicate images
  • Various minor code fixes

Version 0.9

November 21, 2004

  • Added the features:
    • Clear History
    • Clear Radio Buttons
    • Disable Cache
    • Disable Default Browser Styles
    • Disable Embedded Styles
    • Disable Individual Style Sheet
    • Disable Inline Styles
    • Disable Linked Style Sheets
    • Disable Popup Blocker
    • Display Anchors
    • Display CSS By Media Type
    • Display Image File Sizes
    • Hide Background Images
    • Linearize Page
    • Open DOM Inspector
    • Outline Images With Adjusted Dimensions
    • Outline Images Without Dimensions
    • Outline Selected Element
    • Outline Tables
    • Remove Maximum Lengths
    • Use Border Box Model
    • View Image Information
    • View JavaScript
    • View Link Information
  • Added a toolbar button for Firefox to show and hide the toolbar
  • Added keyboard shortcuts:
    • Open Java Console
    • Show and hide the toolbar
  • Added support for style sheets included from an XML processing instruction
  • 'Display Form Details' now displays size and maxlength for text fields
  • Generated tabs can now be configured to open in the background
  • Improved tab support
  • Improved the 'Edit CSS' feature:
    • CSS changes can now be stuck so that they are not lost when a new page is loaded
    • Textarea colors are now configurable
    • Textarea wrap can now be toggled on or off
  • Improved the 'Populate Form Fields' feature:
    • Added checkbox, radio button and select support
    • Text boxes containing 'email' in the name are now populated with an email address
  • JavaScript Console can now be configured to open when there is a warning or an error on the page
  • Replaced 'Validation' feature with new 'Tools' feature that allows unlimited external tools with customizable keyboard shortcuts
  • 'Resize' feature now allows unlimited options
  • 'View Cookie Information' now displays whether a cookie is secure or not
  • 'View Style Information' results can now be configured to display in the sidebar.
  • Fixed issues:
    • 'Disable' feature did not persist
    • 'Display Form Details' did not show details about form fields
    • 'Edit CSS' feature did not load and unload CSS correctly in all cases
    • Generated pages never stopped loading indicator
    • Keyboard shortcut defaults conflicted with Seamonkey keyboard shortcuts
    • 'Populate Form Fields' populated disabled fields
    • 'View Cookie Information' feature did not work on pages with port numbers
    • 'Visited Links' features threw a JavaScript exception
  • Various minor codes fixes

Version 0.8

June 6, 2004

  • Added the features:
    • Clear Session Cookies
    • Disable Image Animations
    • Display Access Keys
    • Display Block Size
    • Display Current Size in Title
    • Display Link Paths
    • Display Tab Index
    • Display Topographic Information
    • Make Form Fields Writable
    • Outline Frames
    • Outline Images With Empty Alt Attributes
    • Populate Form Fields
    • Show Comments
  • Added a Pinstripe theme and updated the Qute theme
  • Added an option to hide the Web Developer Tools menu
  • Added better tab and window support
  • Added Firefox 1.0 compatibility
  • Added localized language support
  • Colors for all features that display 'tooltips' are now configurable
  • Improved the 'Edit CSS' feature:
    • Font is now monospaced and the size is configurable
    • Style sheets are now displayed in separate tabs
  • Removed all unnecessary page refreshes
  • Removed uninstall support as it is provided elsewhere
  • Tidied the menus
  • Fixed issues:
    • Opening a popup window with the toolbar in text mode crashed the browser
    • Status icons became invisible with the toolbar in text mode
    • 'Validate Local CSS' feature was not working
  • Optimized the code
  • Various minor codes fixes

Version 0.7

March 12, 2004

  • Added the features:
    • Add User Style Sheet
    • Clear Cache
    • Clear HTTP Authentication
    • Edit CSS
    • Disable Page Colors
    • Disable Referrer Logging
    • Zoom
  • Added a toolbar icon to disable the extension
  • Added configurable keyboard shortcut support
  • Added status icons that indicate whether the page is in standards compliance mode and if there were JavaScript errors on the page
  • Added uninstall support
  • Colors used by the 'View Id & Class Details' feature are now configurable
  • Improved options dialog
  • Outlining of elements (except table cells) no longer affects the page layout
  • Resize window default sizes are now configurable
  • Toolbar is now hidden in popup windows
  • Various minor codes fixes

Version 0.6.1

January 29, 2004

  • Added the features:
    • Disable Images
    • View Form Information
  • Added an option to hide the Web Developer context menu
  • Added an option to show/hide element names when outlining
  • 'View Source' feature can now be configured to load in a window or a tab - loading in a tab does not load from the cache
  • Various minor codes fixes

Version 0.6

January 25, 2004

  • Added the features:
    • Delete Domain Cookies
    • Display Image Paths
    • Open Java Console
    • Outline Deprecated Elements
    • View Style Information
  • Added keyboard shortcuts
  • Added nested frame support
  • All validator URLs are now configurable in the options
  • 'Disable Styles' feature now also disables inline styles as element attributes
  • Generated pages can now be configured to open in tabs or windows
  • 'Outline Custom Elements' feature choices are now persisted
  • Reinstated the Web Developer context menu
  • Removed the 'View Generated Source' feature since it didn't work correctly
  • Replaced 'View HTTP Headers' feature with 'View Response Headers'
  • 'View Cookie Information' feature now displays more information including host and expiration date
  • 'View Source' feature now loads from the cache - it also loads in a new window instead of a new tab in order to support this
  • Optimized the code
  • Various minor codes fixes

Version 0.5

December 11, 2003

  • Added the features:
    • Convert GETs to POSTs
    • Display Image Dimensions
    • Make Images Invisible
    • Open JavaScript Console
    • Show Passwords
    • Visited Links
  • Added @import support
  • Added a show/hide toolbar menu option in Seamonkey
  • Changed the 'Find Broken Images' feature to display in a tab instead of a dialog box
  • Fixed issues:
    • Disabling and enabling styles activated any alternate style sheets
    • Disabling or enabling cookies threw a JavaScript exception
    • Displaying form details reordered the form fields
  • Various minor codes fixes

Version 0.4

October 4, 2003

  • Added the features:
    • Disable Cookies
    • Find Broken Images
    • Outline Links Without Title Attributes
    • View Generated Source
    • View HTTP Headers
    • View Id & Class Details
    • View Page Information
    • View Speed Report
    • W3C Documents
  • Added frame support to all the features
  • Added Seamonkey support
  • Changed the 'Validate Local CSS' feature to use the W3C validation service
  • Removed the Web Developer context menu due to conflicts with other extensions
  • Updated the toolbar icons from the new Qute theme
  • Various minor codes fixes

Version 0.3

July 8, 2003

  • Added the features:
    • Outline Images Without Title Attributes
    • Persist Styles
    • Reset Page
    • Validate Local CSS
    • View CSS
  • Added a Web Developer context menu
  • 'Outline Custom Elements' feature now supports multiple elements and colors
  • Removed the 'Meta Data Information' feature as it is already provided by 'View Page Info' in the context menu
  • Various minor codes fixes

Version 0.2.1

June 10, 2003

  • Added the features:
    • Replace Images With Alt Attributes
  • Fixed bug in skin install
  • Moved 'View Source' feature into it's own button
  • Removed large icons from the toolbar

Version 0.2

June 8, 2003

  • Customizable toolbar
  • Added the features:
    • Custom Validator
    • Disable Java
    • Disable JavaScript
    • Meta Data Information
    • Outline Custom Elements
    • Resize to Custom Size
    • Validate Links
    • Validate Local HTML
  • Various minor codes fixes

Version 0.1

June 3, 2003

  • Initial release
  • Provided the features:
    • Convert POSTs to GETs
    • Cookie Information
    • Current Window Size
    • Disable Styles
    • Display Form Details
    • Enable Autocompletion
    • Hide Images
    • Outline Block Level Elements
    • Outline Images Without Alt Attributes
    • Outline Table Cells
    • Resize to 640x480
    • Resize to 800x600
    • Resize to 1024x768
    • Validate CSS
    • Validate HTML
    • Validate Section 508 Accessibility
    • Validate WAI Accessibility
    • View Source