Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-09-27

Jan Honza Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Grant Gayed, Pedro Simonetti, Steven Roussey

New FWG Member

• Simon Lindholm
  • Command Line + autocompletion

Firebug 1.8

• Firebug 1.8.3 on AMO

Firebug 1.9

• 1.9a4 this week?
• List of 1.9 blockers

• Firebug is broken in latest Firefox nightly, bug 6891014

Issues

• Issue 4866: Regression: FBTests commandLine/2934 and css/3652 fail
  • Sebastian, Simon?
• Issue 1413: Restore position in Script panel after page reload (Sebastian)

Discussed last week

• FIXED 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
  • blocked on issue 4848
• Issue 4848: Create new SVG inspector (Mike?)
  • The goal should be to reuse built-in inspector as soon as it's ready.
• Issue 4627: String.prototype methods not showing up (Tasos)
  • Any progress?
• 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 fail in 1.9a2 (negative failures)
• Pedro will write some more tests for the HTML panel
  • Pedro is going to suggest a list of possible features to test in the HTML panel
  • Send a link to an example how to use FBTest.TaskList (Honza)

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

• Roadmap available
• Bug 666713 - Dynamic analysis of chrome->content operations in Firefox
  • Waiting for an XPCOM service that forwards logs to JS for dynamic analysis.
• Console Panel Remoting
• Firebug could cheat and use iframe in content process.

getfirebug.com

• Brian Hourigan moved getfirebug.com onto another server-farm
  • http://getfirebug.com/firstrun doesn't work! (Firebug 1.8.3 went out yesterday)
  • http://blog.getfirebug.com/ missing images.