Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2015-01-20

Jan Odvarko, Florent Fayolle, Alistair Laing, Christoph Dorn

Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firebug

Firebug 2

• We need to notify users with e10s off after some time saying to switch it back on + upgrade to Firebug 3.
  • Florent's patch for Issue 7721

• Issue 7724: Firebug Breakpoint exception in current FF Nightly
  • Honza: setBreakpoint must be called on SourceActor (new API)
  • See more: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1105493#c4

Firebug 3

• Honza: release Firebug 3 alpha 8 this week

• It would be nice to have a CSS template for devtools & Firebug theming
• Honza: update the readme file to point to the getfirebug.com alpha releases (also see gitter).
  • https://gitter.im/firebug/firebug.next?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge

• We could perhaps maintain this page for release notes:
  • https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/tags

• Honza: mention Browser Content Toolbox for child processes on wiki.
• Honza: mention https://github.com/Gozala/jpm-addon
• Honza: mention that Nightly is needed for Firebug 3

• Help to new contributors
  • explain that a lot of errors in the browser console is ok for now
  • swapping from cfx to jpm could be confusing

1Q 2015 focus on following extensions

• FirePHP: Christoph Dorn interested
• FireQuery: Alistair interested, we should create a list of main features, so it's easier to analyze what platform APIs we need.
• NetExport
• PixelPerfect

Next steps:

• Honza: Several devtools extension examples showing how to use new API already available (https://github.com/firebug/devtools-extension-examples)
  • There is also HelloReact showing how to use web libs to build an extension.
• Honza: analyze necessary platform API
• Honza: FBTrace support for child processes
• Honza: blogging about "Extending DevTools"
• Honza: continue with NetExport porting to Firebug.next