DevTools/2011-03-23

Meeting Details

• Wednesday Mar. 23, 2010 - 9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 9364
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 9364 (US)
• #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel

Notices

• Firefox 4 and Firebug 1.7 shipped!
  • First new built-in Firefox devtools in a long time
  • Web Console screencast
  • DevTools blog
    • more activity coming, weekly updates and such
• Firebug update
  • No negative feedback so far
  • two blog posts in progress: bigger what's new in Firebug 1.7, changes to page load order between Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 and how you can use Firebug to see this
  • Firebug 1.8
    • going to switch to modules architecture
    • would like to follow the same release cycle as Firefox
    • command line and tab initialization improvements planned
• Firefox.next priorities
  • See status page
  • Web Console improvements
    • docking/undocking
    • moving to bottom
    • console service
    • landing other fixes
  • Groundwork for the future
    • JSD2
    • memory profiling
    • Workspaces
    • GCLI
  • CSS help
    • Highlighter
    • Style Inspector
    • Style Doctor
• Reporting project status here
• Landing code
  • Patches need to be killable
  • bugfixes and polish probably don't need kill switches
  • something like workspaces will need to be able to be preffed out
  • the sheriff needs to be consulted for any checkins for the next few days
  • land directly on mozilla-central and merge back for these small things
  • mechanism for preffing out?
    • makefile variables
    • or have things behind preference existence checks (if (somepref) { do this })
    • makefile variables have the downside of bad line numbers for exceptions
    • the preferences route is better because it's available in the product to try both paths
    • security problems should probably just be backed out

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