Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-09-13

Jan Honza Odvarko, Mike Rennie, Grant Gayed, Pedro Simonetti

Firebug 1.8

• Firebug 1.8.3 released this week (compatibile with Firefox 8)
  • Firefox 8 moves to beta on September 27 (schedule)
  • Backport: Issue 4811: No file name shown for requested URL paths

Firebug 1.9

• 1.9a2 released
• Firebug UI embedded in a <browser> element (Robo Form and Status Bar fixed)
• FIXED Issue 4689: Add option to copy parts of JSON data (Tasoss)

Issues:

• Issue 1179: Actions do not move the program counter after Step Into if breakpoint is on first line of function (Honza)
• Issue 4128: use swapDocShells for detaching (Amirjanyan)

• Added more information to the March of the Firebugs page. Short summary of the statistics (Sebastian):
  • Most of the new issues are finally triaged/closed now
  • Many long untouched issues and issues without info were checked by me
  • Issues needing FBTests are increasing
  • Still need help with triaging NetExport and Chromebug issues

Firebug TestBot

• 4 tests fails in 1.9a2 (negative failures)
• Pedro to write some more test for the HTML panel, progress?

FBTrace

• FBTrace embeds Firefox built-in Source Editor (based on Orion)
• The editor doesn't support breakpoint column, but it could be added by Firebug.

Memory Leaks

• NEEDS MORE WORK Bug 669730 - Firebug causes immortal zombie compartments
  • Some work still needed
  • Description about tracing event listeners.

Firebug Swarms

• Still under construction
• Done:
  • Version comparison with the user agent
  • Version comparison with the (automatically) selected Firebug version

• Open tasks:
  • Improve version comparator
  • Change data caching to database (see bug 677690)
  • Read icon from XPI

E10S & Remote Debugging & Crossfire

• JSD2 in nightlies
• Bug 666713 - Dynamic analysis of chrome->content operations in Firefox
  • Waiting for an XPCOM service that forwards logs to JS for dynamic analysis.

Firebug & Lite

• Using a small library to access localStorage in the browser (user data in IE).
• Firebug Lite 1.4 release this week.

getfirebug.com

• Perch still doesn't work properly (wiki is fixed) bug 639438
• Fixing Bug 684704 - move getfirebug.com to new generic cluster in phx1 could also fix Bug 639438 - Wiki and Perch on getfirebug.com require login again and again.