Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-11-29

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner

Firebug 1.9

• 1.9 beta 3, on Friday
• 1.9 final at the end of the year (we have 4 weeks)

• List of blockers

• Priorities for 1.9
  • Automated Testing - Sebastian
  • Memory Leaks - Honza

1.9 Blockers Triage

• Issue 3009: Erroneous display of CSS inheritance

• Issue 4508: New screencasts for Firebug 1.9
  • Sebastian: post a comment with requirements for the screencast
  • #1) General introduction into Firebug
  • #2) New features for 1.9

• Issue 4627: String.prototype methods not showing up
  • Honza: to fix

• Issue 4690: infinite error loop in "httpActivityObserver" when closing window
  • Honza: examine if this can cause a memory leak

• Issue 4998: 50% of the lines of script are missing on the Mac
  • Honza: try to reproduce the problem

• Issue 5003: Some keyboard shortcuts are not changable in Firebug 1.9
  • Waiting for Hans Hillen's suggestions how to implement this

• Issue 4217: "Reenter Command" doesn't work
  • Sebastian: take a look

Automated Tests

• Sebastian to implement some tests.
• console/api/profile failing
  • Sebastian: check the regression range
• Andrew helping Sebastian installing test-bot on local machine

Firebug Distribution

• Users should download from AMO
• Users should be updated from AMO
• Users with old Firebug version (downloaded from getfirebug.com) should be also updated from AMO