Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-12-20

Jan Odvarko, Steven Roussey

Firebug 1.9

• 1.9 beta 5 this week
• 1.9 final after xmas

• List of blockers

• Next Firebug weekly call: 3rd of January, 2012

1.9 Blockers Progress

• Steven: Issue 4508: New screencasts for Firebug 1.9

• FIXED Issue 3009: Erroneous display of CSS inheritance
  • Sebastian to report a related issue (not a blocker)

• FIXED Issue 1189: Display errors of inherited CSS styles in combination with shorthand properties

• FIXED Issue 5019: Editing a variable in the Watch window doesn't work

• Sebastian: Issue 4983: FBTest shows wrong timing

• FIXED Issue 2183: Editing a text node with "Show Full Text" off displays cropped text instead of full text

Misc

• Extension Developer extension has reload-chrome feature.
  • Could we have such feature in FBTrace?
  • Honza to take a look.

Firebug.next Plan

• Honza: update Firebug Roadmap wiki page

• Orion text view in the Script panel
• Firecookie part of Firebug distribution
• Delayed Firebug load (not slow down Firebug startup time)
• New Firebug Activation (one Firebug instance per tab)
• JSD2
• Remote HTTP monitoring (based on JSD2 remote protocol)
• Support for restart-less extensions (dynamic panels/modules/... registration)
• Get rid of XUL

Memory Leaks, how to identify objects in CC heap dump?

• Mark all objects in Firebug
• Use a display name for every function (Steven to search for a tool)
• Use class name for every class.