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Summary
| Pages | No tags | Needs* tags | Missing tags | Editorial reviews | Technical reviews | Outdated pages | Dev-doc-needed bugs | Documentation requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 182 | 118 (65%) | 1 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (3%) | 5 (3%) | 69 (38%) | 67 (37%) | 20 (11%) |
See also localization status of this section.
No tags
Found 118 pages. Learn more about how to tag pages.
- Add-ons
- Adding a panel to the toolbox
- CSS Coverage
- Contributing
- Contribute on Nightly
- How to
- Access debugging in add-ons
- Black box a source
- Break on a DOM event
- Breaking on exceptions
- Debug eval sources
- Disable breakpoints
- Examine, modify, and watch variables
- Highlight and inspect DOM nodes
- Open the debugger
- Pretty-print a minified file
- Search
- Set a conditional breakpoint
- Set watch expressions
- Step through code
- Use a source map
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Limitations of the new debugger
- Settings
- UI Tour
- Debugger (before Firefox 52)
- Disable breakpoints
- How to
- Access debugging in add-ons
- Black box a source
- Break on a DOM event
- Debug eval sources
- Disable breakpoints
- Examine, modify, and watch variables
- Highlight and inspect DOM nodes
- Open the debugger
- Pretty-print a minified file
- Search and filter
- Set a breakpoint
- Set a conditional breakpoint
- Step through code
- Use a source map
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Settings
- UI Tour
- Debugger-API
- Debugger
- Debugger.Environment
- Debugger.Frame
- Debugger.Object
- Debugger.Script
- Debugger.Source
- Tools/Debugger-API/Conventions
- Tools/Debugger-API/Debugger.Memory
- Tools/Debugger-API/Tutorial-Debugger-Statement
- Customization
- Future
- Scratchpad
- Writing GCLI Commands
- Editor
- Example add-ons
- Firefox OS Simulator
- JSON viewer
- Aggregate view
- Basic operations
- DOM allocation example
- Dominators
- Dominators view
- Monster example
- Tree map view
- How to
- Reposition elements in the page
- Select and highlight elements
- View background images
- Animation inspector (Firefox 41 and 42)
- Animation inspector example: CSS transitions
- Animation inspector example: Web Animations API
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Paint Flashing Tool
- Performance
- Allocations
- Examples
- Sorting algorithms comparison
- Flame Chart
- Frame rate
- How to
- Animating CSS properties
- Intensive JavaScript
- UI Tour
- Waterfall
- Release notes
- Debugging Firefox OS over USB
- Debugging Firefox OS over WiFi
- Debugging Firefox for Android over WiFi
- Remotely debugging Chrome Desktop
- Remotely debugging Firefox for Metro
- Responsive Design Mode (before Firefox 52)
- Rulers
- Settings
- Shader Editor
- Toolbox
- Tools/Debugger.Object
- Valence (Firefox Tools Adapter)
- View Source
- Console messages
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Opening the Web Console
- Rich output
- Split console
- The command line interpreter
- Creating and editing apps
- Monitor
- Running and debugging apps
- Setting up runtimes
- The runtime menu
- WebIDE Troubleshooting
- Working with Cordova apps in WebIDE
- about:debugging
Needs* tags
Found 1 pages. Learn more about how to deal with meta-tags.
- NeedsContent
Editorial reviews
Found 5 pages. Learn more about how to do an editorial review.
Technical reviews
Found 5 pages. Learn more about how to do a technical review.
Outdated pages
Found 69 pages. These pages haven't been updated in over a year. Outdated pages can have problems with both content and format. Look at these pages and consider: Is this page talking about the Web of today? Does it look consistent with newer pages in this topic area? If not, make any needed changes.
- 3D view
473 days old - Add-ons
451 days old - DOM Inspector
918 days old - DOM Inspector FAQ
426 days old - DOM Inspector internals
597 days old - Introduction to DOM Inspector
920 days old - Adding a panel to the toolbox
636 days old - Browser Toolbox
418 days old - CSS Coverage
1118 days old - How to
705 days old - Keyboard shortcuts
929 days old - Settings
495 days old - DevTools API
722 days old - Building GCLI For Firefox
1065 days old - Customization
1473 days old - Future
1860 days old - Display security and privacy policies
591 days old - Scratchpad
461 days old - Example add-ons
455 days old - Firefox OS 1.1 Simulator
914 days old - Firefox OS Simulator
878 days old - Index
1192 days old - Aggregate view
459 days old - DOM allocation example
459 days old - Dominators
502 days old - Dominators view
373 days old - Monster example
460 days old - Tree map view
459 days old - How to
907 days old - Edit CSS filters
626 days old - Use the Inspector API
907 days old - Use the Inspector from the Web Console
907 days old - View background images
545 days old - View fonts
383 days old - Visualize transforms
907 days old - Animation inspector (Firefox 41 and 42)
624 days old - Animation inspector example: CSS transitions
453 days old - Performance
436 days old - Allocations
543 days old - Examples
792 days old - Sorting algorithms comparison
789 days old - Flame Chart
789 days old - Frame rate
728 days old - How to
449 days old - Scenarios
601 days old - Animating CSS properties
789 days old - UI Tour
449 days old - Waterfall
449 days old - Remote Debugging
383 days old - Debugging Firefox for Android with WebIDE
914 days old - Remotely debugging Chrome Desktop
831 days old - Remotely debugging Firefox for Metro
1275 days old - Rulers
634 days old - Shader Editor
497 days old - The Web Developer Menu
1201 days old - Tools/Debugger.Object
1219 days old - Validators
804 days old - View Source
660 days old - Keyboard shortcuts
668 days old - Opening the Web Console
446 days old - Split console
632 days old - The command line interpreter
446 days old - Web Console remoting
1094 days old - Creating and editing apps
591 days old - Monitor
533 days old - Running and debugging apps
591 days old - Setting up runtimes
591 days old - The runtime menu
591 days old - Working with Cordova apps in WebIDE
844 days old
Dev-doc-needed bugs
Found 67 bugs. Learn more about how to resolve a dev-doc-needed bug.
| Bug | Summary | Release |
|---|---|---|
| 1373339 | Add a button to toggle the CSS shapes highlighter | Firefox 56 |
| 987877 | [markup view] Add "Copy XPath" context menu item for nodes | Firefox 56 |
| 1360495 | Add response headers columns | Firefox 56 |
| 1349561 | Introduce UI for disabling browser cache in the Net panel | Firefox 56 |
| 1361296 | Add Open in Debugger and Open In Style Editor in context menu | Firefox 56 |
| 1289570 | Pref on source maps in the web console | --- |
| 956088 | Visual indication that source is sourcemapped | --- |
| 1213767 | Make it easier to toggle classes on elements in the inspector | Firefox 55 |
| 1350233 | Add [learn more] MDN link for statistics panel | Firefox 55 |
| 1275942 | Merge startup debugging support from Positron branch | Firefox 55 |
| 1350235 | Support Copy submenu in the Context menu | Firefox 55 |
| 862855 | Add the ability to show/hide more columns in the network panel | Firefox 55 |
| 1353057 | Split requests summary button into multiple labels | Firefox 55 |
| 1356867 | Add scheme column to netmonitor | Firefox 55 |
| 736882 | Request/response details should indicate whether SPDY was used | Firefox 55 |
| 1356871 | Add timing related columns | Firefox 55 |
| 1308694 | Introduce a tooltip for the waterfall graph displaying timings | Firefox 55 |
| 1345489 | Introduce a new column for protocol version | Firefox 55 |
| 1361473 | Add filter option for network requests checking for transferred size being larger than specified value | Firefox 55 |
| 1363307 | Add a warning when Console.timeEnd(label) is used with an unknown label | Firefox 55 |
| 1350229 | Removing Preview side panel | Firefox 55 |
| 1350234 | Move stack trace tooltip to network details panel (sidebar panel) | Firefox 55 |
| 1352801 | Remove MDN tooltip | Firefox 55 |
| 1354504 | Autocomplete Network Monitor filters | Firefox 55 |
| 940275 | Show top/left/right/bottom properties in the layout view | Firefox 55 |
| 1356869 | Add cookies and set cookies columns | Firefox 55 |
| 966209 | Add "Save Image As" in request list context menu | Firefox 55 |
| 1359681 | Tap timeline column to open the timing sidebar panel | Firefox 55 |
| 1346326 | console.count() should use "default" as the default counter label to follow the latest spec for console | Firefox 55 |
| 1361480 | Improve algorithm of 'size' and 'transferred' filters | Firefox 55 |
| 1350228 | Add status bar to put summary text | Firefox 55 |
| 1335608 | Add menu button to access tools when toolbar overflows | Firefox 54 |
| 1304685 | Help debug spacing issues caused by whitespace text nodes | Firefox 52 |
| 1287508 | New console frontend: Add filter bar | Firefox 51 |
| 1300861 | Enable new debugger frontend in nightly builds | Firefox 51 |
| 1288511 | Land new debugger behind a pref | Firefox 51 |
| 1298230 | SyntaxError thrown during querySelector doesn't provide additional information about why it was thrown (selector and node) | Firefox 51 |
| 1285672 | New console frontend: introduce message limit | Firefox 50 |
| 1172920 | DevTools: Map/Set entries should be visible in the Variables view | Firefox 48 |
| 762979 | Implement shorlander's line gutter mockup for the source editor | Firefox 47 |
| 1188405 | Move gDevTools.jsm to a commonjs module | Firefox 47 |
| 1246215 | After an error in a let-declaration initializer, the variable is doomed forever | Firefox 47 |
| 1025778 | Save value as global variable in console | Firefox 44 |
| 1059727 | New API: Toolbox panel initialization events | Firefox 35 |
| 629607 | Convert the Console API to use a proxy instead of the deprecated __noSuchMethod__ | Firefox 30 |
| 913630 | [rule view] Pasting in multiple CSS declarations should automatically split them up | Firefox 29 |
| 879293 | Isolating log messages now requires multiple clicks and use to require only one | Firefox 28 |
| 805526 | Remotable Inspector | Firefox 26 |
| 777428 | debug webapps running in desktop webapp runtime | Firefox 26 |
| 731311 | Network monitor should allow to replay and edit requests | Firefox 25 |
| 612252 | "clear console" needs a keyboard shortcut in a bad way | Firefox 24 |
| 859756 | [browserconsole] Missing nsIConsoleMessages from Browser Console | Firefox 24 |
| 816967 | Remotable Style Editor | Firefox 23 |
| 851231 | Output console.jsm API calls to the browser console | Firefox 23 |
| 837723 | [jsdbg2] Debugger should provide a way to get Debugger.Object referents directly | Firefox 23 |
| 808370 | Use the VariablesView in webconsole | Firefox 23 |
| 644413 | Scratchpads should be able to restore their context via mode-line | Firefox 21 |
| 808791 | Reuse existing scopes in the variables view when faced with name duplicates | Firefox 21 |
| 795268 | Integrate SPS Profiler (JS Only) | Firefox 20 |
| 796073 | [jsdbg2] addDebuggee should not accept non-globals | Firefox 19 |
| 749316 | Put Debugger object into chrome scratchpad | Firefox 15 |
| 731721 | Source Editor stepping support | Firefox 14 |
| 684445 | Orion source editor should have built-in context menu | Firefox 13 |
| 721324 | Allow the source code editor of Scratchpad & StyleEditor to be themed | Firefox 13 |
| 650345 | Implement minimal UI for Find in the Source Editor | Firefox 12 |
| 612658 | Implement ConsoleAPIStorage - add caching for the window.console API | Firefox 9 |
| 587734 | Integrate lazy window console API into WebConsole code | Firefox 4.0b8 |
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Documentation requests
Found 20 bugs. Documentation request bugs can contain various kinds work related to MDN pages. Read through the bug and ask questions in the bug if in doubt.
| Bug | Summary |
|---|---|
| 960751 | Find a good place to link to Chrome dev tools docs |
| 966144 | Enhance App Templates page to boost App Manager adoption |
| 983018 | Update devtools API docs |
| 993113 | Supply English subtitles for devtools screencasts |
| 998410 | There should be a page listing all the devtools.* preferences |
| 1080128 | Document the Canvas Debugger |
| 1127081 | Split up WebIDE page |
| 1228512 | Describe JavaScript source mapping in detail |
| 1241469 | Explain missing event markers in Performance tool description |
| 1250795 | Explain filters in Performance tool |
| 1250796 | Performance tool description cannot be reached from within the sidebar menu |
| 1257457 | Wrong example in XPath translate wiki |
| 1265763 | mozconfig results in build error on Win10 x64, should be .mozconfig (dot missing) |
| 1277873 | Inspector/HTML editor documentation is misleading - does not adequately reflect the caveats of the tool and its capabilites |
| 1314616 | 'Menulist Editable' documentation page not found |
| 1330896 | Describe error count shown within the GCLI |
| 1345030 | Incorrect information in the list of extra tools |
| 1346027 | Incorrect information on a keyboard shortcut |
| 1371549 | Correct info about new debugger UI |
| 1385337 | Write MDN page describing source map failures and how to fix them |
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Localizations
Please help us to localize this documentation into different languages. Read more about how to translate.
| Language | Pages | Translated | Translations up to date |
|---|---|---|---|
| af | 157 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| bn-BD | 157 | 17 (10%) | 1 (5%) |
| de | 157 | 37 (23%) | 7 (18%) |
| es | 157 | 34 (21%) | 5 (14%) |
| fa | 157 | 12 (7%) | 2 (16%) |
| fr | 182 | 171 (93%) | 141 (82%) |
| it | 157 | 15 (9%) | 2 (13%) |
| ja | 182 | 148 (81%) | 110 (74%) |
| ko | 157 | 13 (8%) | 2 (15%) |
| pl | 157 | 21 (13%) | 9 (42%) |
| pt-BR | 157 | 35 (22%) | 13 (37%) |
| pt-PT | 157 | 17 (10%) | 11 (64%) |
| ro | 157 | 13 (8%) | 1 (7%) |
| ru | 178 | 60 (33%) | 21 (35%) |
| zh-CN | 157 | 55 (35%) | 18 (32%) |
| zh-TW | 157 | 23 (14%) | 2 (8%) |
Notes
Tagging standard
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Other tasks to do
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Tutorial to-do list
- TBD
Notes for translators
Any notes here? Where do we expect updates, so that localizers don't translate and update too often?
Specifications
The following specifications are tracked by this status page:
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