Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2009-06-02

Attendees

curtis, honza, hans, steve, robc, jjb

Upcoming/Recent events

• Velocity Conference in San Jose for June, calls for topics in the air.
  • attending so far, honza, robc
    • Honza to present 10 minute feature on Firebug

Random bits

• added blocks1.4 label to issues page
  • criteria: has testcase, regression, new feature that doesn't work properly
• some terminology
  • panels are enabled or disabled
  • pages are active or inactive
  • firebug is on or off or suspended
    • possible pseudo initial state, off-in-startup
• open placement
  • openInBrowser
  • openInWindow (detached)
  • minimized

Firebug 1.4

• beta
• Inspect issues?
• Firebug Blockers
• bug 488730 Wrong line numbers in source - patch in hand
  • Issue 1628
  • some question of testcase validity
• bug 483672 Permission denied for <http://localhost:7080> to call method UnnamedClass.handleEvent@XPCSafeJSObjectWrapper.cpp:445.0- verified fixed
• bug 493074 CSS loading issue - verified fixed
• bug 495274 CSS changes when Firebug active in Firefox 3.5 - verified fixed
• bug 493968 Error loading CBC news page with Firebug enabled - verified fixed
  • and issue 1782 to track a weird race condition in 3.5b4 and up
• bug 494235 prevent calls to upvar-referring closures with incorrect JSContext.display - patch in hand
• bug 456996 After 304 browser doesn't send "If-None-Match" or "If-Modified-Since" (resulting in a cycle of 200->304... - resolved invalid
• anything missing?

getfirebug.com

• revisit, cleanup extensions page
• promote featured extensions, jsdiff when ready, closer to 1.4

FBTest

• currently consuming a bunch of time
• moving from asynchronous to ui-event-based tests
• need to gather classes of tests we don't currently have
  • create wiki page to gather test classes DONE
    • http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/web/fbtest-coverage

Post 1.4 work

• Punjabi Manoj has a call tracing function ready to implement
  • should contact him and evaluate implementation/integration difficulty
  • bug on file, bug 469492 (already fixed)
• event listener info
• extend jsd API
  • script creation notification
• bug 488270 New APIs for precise time measurement of net requests.

Net Export Feature

• honza to document and create net events
• steves to discuss output format with simon from httpwatch
  • discussed, they're using their current format but will be happy to create importer/exporters for other data formats, e.g., JSON

March of the Firebugs

updated