Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2014-12-09

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Jan Odvarko, Florent Fayolle, Simon Lindholm

Firebug 2

  • Firebug 2.0.7 released
    • e10s detection code fixed
    • Issue 7679: A preference to enable/disable the syntax highlighting inside the Scipt panel.
  • TODO Remove Swarms from getfirebug.com
    • Honza: take a look
  • We need to notify users with e10s off after some time saying to switch it back on + upgrade to Firebug 3. Honza: file a bug.
  • FireQuery is breaking Firebug
    • Honza: take a look?

Firebug 3

  • Milestone: beta (January 30)
    • We are driven by e10s progress
  • We should think about how to support existing Firebug extension developers and make the transition into Firebug 3 + e10s world easier.
  • Honza: working on dynamic actor registration e10s support
    • Bug 1107888 - e10s support for dynamic actor registration
  • Firebug 3 features
    • Let's identify successful Firebug 2 extensions and think about supporting them (as separate extensions or built in Firebug 3 features).
  • Firebug 3 alpha 5 released
  • We have new release notes linking to XPI fixed issues
  • We want more posts on hacks.mozilla.org and getfirebug.com
  • Honza: unit test API progress
    • We should put our test API into NPM modules, publish and blog about it.
  • Telemetry
    • The telemetry data coming from addons are uploaded but not publicly available.
    • Honza: find a way how to access it
  • React
    • Decision has not been made, but people like it.
  • New API in Firefox
    • Tracing allocations API (demo on MDN)
  • Support for HAR is now in Firebug 3
  • Issue labels:
    • platform (a platform issue)
    • feature (a new feature e.g. on the platform)
    • gap? (is this feature a firebug gap or not). We need some suggestions how to call this label.
  • Do bug triage on the next meeting
    • There are three weeks Christmas gap before January meeting.


Task List

  • Florent: FBTrace support + waiting reviews on the platform
  • Honza: Platform API, actors and SDK theming
  • Aakash: https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/issues/122
  • Farshid: ?
  • Djalil: Move option to see all fonts used by a page to Fonts side panel options menu #188
  • Kartik: Properly style console.table() output #136
  • Simon: ?
  • bmdeveloper: Scope label has wrong background #229