The final version of Firebug 1.2 has been released and will be up on the Mozilla Add-ons site today, and it is immediately available GetFirebug.com. There have been several improvements and a huge number of bug fixes made. Some of the major features in the release include Firefox 3 support, quality improvements, selective panel enablement, and the ability to suspend/resume Firebug. Firebug 1.3 development is already underway and is going to be focused on performance, quality, and testing. John Resig writes, “Firebug is the de facto tool for web developers and we need to make sure that its quality does not wane and that we tackle performance head-on.” For more information, see John’s blog post announcing the release.

Keeping track of Mozilla development is never easy, especially the minute details related to new or improved web technology development and support. The Mozilla development community has set up a new weblog to fix this, the Web Tech weblog. Here the devs will be posting about and discussing topics of interest to web developers. For example, recent posts include: word-wrap: break word support, CSS 2.1 generated content, and querySelector[All]. Questions and discussions are welcome, so go check out the weblog and stay up to date on all the latest Mozilla web technology.