Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-09-13
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Jan Honza Odvarko, Mike Rennie, Grant Gayed, Pedro Simonetti
Contents
Firebug 1.8
- Firebug 1.8.3 released this week (compatibile with Firefox 8)
- Firefox 8 moves to beta on September 27 (schedule)
- Backport: Issue 4811: No file name shown for requested URL paths
Firebug 1.9
- 1.9a2 released
- Firebug UI embedded in a <browser> element (Robo Form and Status Bar fixed)
- FIXED Issue 4689: Add option to copy parts of JSON data (Tasoss)
Issues:
- Issue 1179: Actions do not move the program counter after Step Into if breakpoint is on first line of function (Honza)
- Issue 4128: use swapDocShells for detaching (Amirjanyan)
- Added more information to the March of the Firebugs page. Short summary of the statistics (Sebastian):
- Most of the new issues are finally triaged/closed now
- Many long untouched issues and issues without info were checked by me
- Issues needing FBTests are increasing
- Still need help with triaging NetExport and Chromebug issues
Firebug TestBot
- 4 tests fails in 1.9a2 (negative failures)
- Pedro to write some more test for the HTML panel, progress?
FBTrace
- FBTrace embeds Firefox built-in Source Editor (based on Orion)
- The editor doesn't support breakpoint column, but it could be added by Firebug.
Memory Leaks
- NEEDS MORE WORK Bug 669730 - Firebug causes immortal zombie compartments
- Some work still needed
- Description about tracing event listeners.
Firebug Swarms
- Still under construction
- Done:
- Version comparison with the user agent
- Version comparison with the (automatically) selected Firebug version
- Open tasks:
- Improve version comparator
- Change data caching to database (see bug 677690)
- Read icon from XPI
E10S & Remote Debugging & Crossfire
- JSD2 in nightlies
- Bug 666713 - Dynamic analysis of chrome->content operations in Firefox
- Waiting for an XPCOM service that forwards logs to JS for dynamic analysis.
Firebug & Lite
- Using a small library to access localStorage in the browser (user data in IE).
- Firebug Lite 1.4 release this week.
getfirebug.com
- Perch still doesn't work properly (wiki is fixed) bug 639438
- Fixing Bug 684704 - move getfirebug.com to new generic cluster in phx1 could also fix Bug 639438 - Wiki and Perch on getfirebug.com require login again and again.