Firebug 1.6 brings wide range of improvements, features, crushed memory leaks

Version 1.6 of Firebug, the Firefox addin for web developers, is now available. The Firebug project provides frontend and web developers with mechanisms for inspecting and debugging frontend and user-facing components of their web applications.

The new release has been labelled the “best release ever” by the Firebug team, following stability improvements and memory leak reduction in addition to a range of new features. Support has been added for local storage and session storage for a page (a widely-anticipated client-side component of HTML 5); console filtering capabilities; cut, copy and paste event logging; and many more small improvements across the board. The other major feature that has been widely anticipated is the ability to log tables to the Firebug console. This means that you can present a table of information for debugging in the Firebug window from your code, giving you a snapshot of data at a given point in time. Jan Odvarko has more on that feature specifically on his blog.

The next release of Firebug, 1.7, is targetted for early 2011 focussing on compatibility with Firefox 4 which is currently in beta. If you have Firebug already installed it will automatically update imminently, including from beta versions of 1.7. If you want to install it now you can get it from the Mozilla Addons Directory. (1.7 release notes)

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