Security/Reviews/Firefox6/ReviewNotes/webconsole

Date of Review: 2011.05.23

Items Reviewed:

1. Web Console Improvements
2. Autocompletion Popup for Web Console
3. Web Developer Menu

Notes: Web Developer Menu:

• Already on Windows
• Moved from Tools Menu to it's own place on Mac, already existed just moved menus around
  • get more tools goes to Web Developer tools on AMO

Autocompletion:

• changed the DOM for webcontrol UI and window positioning, this is only a UI change to make this happen
• no change to the web page
• code looks at DOM, what is being typed, matches based on current level of DOM

Web Console Improvements:

• no major changes
• invented by firebug, making parity with other players in the space
• http://mozilla.github.com/devtools/2011/status.html#webconsole6 -> items for FX6 are strikethrough
• allow repositioning of web console location
• minor changes to console object ie. console.trace (presents cleaned up stack trace)
• bug 618311: landed, and fixed a privacy issue

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