Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-08-16

Jan Honza Odvarko, Grant Gayed, Steve Roussey

Firebug 1.8

Firebug 1.8.1 released
Firebug 1.8.2 ? blockers
- Mac UI problem, Steve to report?
Known collisions with:
- Robo Form (breaks opening new Firefox window)
- FirePHP (missing Firebug start button)
Firebug test-bot: Testing with SeaMonkey
- Some tests still fail (need to be fixed)
Issues to solve:
- Issue 1811 Display Name (workaround for Salman Mirghasemi's work on automatic function naming)
- Issue 4395: Inclusion of "Firebug" in the User-Agent
- Issue 4377: List of editors should be removed from Firebug Menu
- Issue 4704: Resetting options doesn't work
- Issue 4736: Large array puts Firebug into Unresponsive Script loop - limit multi-highlight for large element arrays (customizable through preferences)
- Issue 4742: Feedback from Mozilla Review Process (global namespace pollution, non-namespaced IDs, undeclared variables, etc.) There is a bug in bugzilla, Steve?

Bug 669730 - Firebug causes immortal zombie compartments
- Another leak caught, waiting for feedback

Ready in Aurora at the end of the year (perhaps)
Everyone should understand e10s
e10s message managers (part I.), introduction from Tim Taubert.
New features should already be implemented with respect to e10s
Mike Rennie the Crossfire contact person
As soon as Firebug 1.8 is stable, working out E10S plan
Bug 666713 - Dynamic analysis of chrome->content operations in Firefox
- Identify all chrome->content access in Firebug architecture
- Forward logs into FBTrace console
- Blocks: can't build Firefox with the logging-patch included on Windows.
e10s Dependency Tree