Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-09-20

Jan Honza Odvarko, Mike Rennie, Sebastian Zartner

Firebug 1.8

• Firebug 1.8.3 released last week (compatible with Firefox 8)

Firebug 1.9

• 1.9a3 this week?
• List of 1.9 blockers

Issues (discussed last week):

• FIXED Issue 1179: Actions do not move the program counter after Step Into if breakpoint is on first line of function (Honza)
• FIXED Issue 4128: use swapDocShells for detaching (Amirjanyan)

Issues to solve:

• Issue 4681: Firebug panels are disabled after clicking on links that open in a new page and result in a download
• Issue 4649: Firebug causes a second HTTP GET request of @fontface font-files
• Issue 4848: Create new SVG inspector (can Mike work on this one?)
• Issue 4627: String.prototype methods not showing up (Tasos)
• Issue 4197: 1.7X.0b1 Autocomplete not recursing through "." operator objects; also ignores jQuery/$ objects (Simon?)

• Sebastian making progress on bug triage

Firebug TestBot

• 4 tests fails in 1.9a2 (negative failures)
• Pedro to write some more test for the HTML panel, progress?

Memory Leaks

• NEEDS MORE WORK Bug 669730 - Firebug causes immortal zombie compartments
  • Some work still needed
  • Description about tracing event listeners.

Firebug Swarms

• Version comparator is working

E10S & Remote Debugging & Crossfire

• Roadmap
• Bug 666713 - Dynamic analysis of chrome->content operations in Firefox
  • Waiting for an XPCOM service that forwards logs to JS for dynamic analysis.

• • Jim Blandy & Jason Orendorff working on JSDBG2 wrapper.

Firebug & Lite

• Firebug Lite 1.4 release this week.

getfirebug.com

• Sebastian still having big problems new bug reported