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Summary
| Pages | No tags | Needs* tags | Missing tags | Editorial reviews | Technical reviews | Outdated pages | Dev-doc-needed bugs | Documentation requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 154 | 94 (62%) | 1 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (4%) | 5 (4%) | 44 (29%) | 38 (25%) | 16 (11%) |
See also localization status of this section.
No tags
Found 94 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
- 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 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
- Eyedropper
- 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
- 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
- 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 44 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.
- DOM Inspector
642 days old - Introduction to DOM Inspector
644 days old - CSS Coverage
842 days old - How to
429 days old - Access debugging in add-ons
653 days old - Keyboard shortcuts
653 days old - DevTools API
446 days old - DevToolsColors
429 days old - Building GCLI For Firefox
789 days old - Customization
1196 days old - Future
1584 days old - Editor
596 days old - Firefox OS 1.1 Simulator
638 days old - Firefox OS Simulator
602 days old - Index
915 days old - How to
631 days old - Inspect and select colors
523 days old - Open the Inspector
631 days old - Select an element
555 days old - Use the Inspector API
631 days old - Use the Inspector from the Web Console
631 days old - Visualize transforms
631 days old - Keyboard shortcuts
637 days old - Paint Flashing Tool
1121 days old - Examples
516 days old - Sorting algorithms comparison
513 days old - Flame Chart
513 days old - Frame rate
452 days old - Animating CSS properties
513 days old - Intensive JavaScript
505 days old - Debugging Firefox OS over USB
441 days old - Debugging Firefox OS over WiFi
440 days old - Debugging Firefox for Android with WebIDE
638 days old - Remotely debugging Chrome Desktop
555 days old - Remotely debugging Firefox for Metro
999 days old - Remotely debugging Thunderbird
610 days old - The Web Developer Menu
925 days old - Tools/Debugger.Object
943 days old - Validators
528 days old - View Source
384 days old - Keyboard shortcuts
392 days old - Rich output
392 days old - Web Console remoting
818 days old - Working with Cordova apps in WebIDE
568 days old
Dev-doc-needed bugs
Found 38 bugs. Learn more about how to resolve a dev-doc-needed bug.
| Bug | Summary | Release |
|---|---|---|
| 1304685 | Help debug spacing issues caused by whitespace text nodes | Firefox 52 |
| 1297383 | Selector highlighter in the rule-view should also work with the 'element {}' rule | Firefox 52 |
| 1304178 | Pref on the new console frontend in nightly | Firefox 52 |
| 1226913 | "Pick an element from the page" is toggle-able. I don't think it should be. | Firefox 52 |
| 1288511 | Land new debugger behind a pref | Firefox 51 |
| 1300861 | Enable new debugger frontend in nightly builds | Firefox 51 |
| 1287508 | New console frontend: Add filter bar | 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 |
| 1089240 | Add a measurement tool | 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 |
| 808370 | Use the VariablesView in webconsole | Firefox 23 |
| 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 |
| 808791 | Reuse existing scopes in the variables view when faced with name duplicates | Firefox 21 |
| 644413 | Scratchpads should be able to restore their context via mode-line | 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 |
| 721324 | Allow the source code editor of Scratchpad & StyleEditor to be themed | Firefox 13 |
| 684445 | Orion source editor should have built-in context menu | 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 |
Browse as bug list.
Documentation requests
Found 16 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 |
| 1308171 | Update screenshots of Storage Inspector |
| 1310136 | Update DevTools release notes to Firefox 51 |
Browse as bug list.
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 | 153 | 142 (92%) | 65 (45%) |
| it | 157 | 15 (9%) | 2 (13%) |
| ja | 153 | 120 (78%) | 86 (71%) |
| 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 | 157 | 55 (35%) | 25 (45%) |
| zh-CN | 157 | 55 (35%) | 18 (32%) |
| zh-TW | 157 | 23 (14%) | 2 (8%) |
Notes
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Other tasks to do
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Notes for translators
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Specifications
The following specifications are tracked by this status page:
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