Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2014-12-16

Jan Odvarko, Florent Fayolle, Farshid Beheshti

Next meeting: 6th or January 2015

Firebug 2

• Issue 7693: Script panel claims 'No Javascript on this page' after closing and reopening Firebug
• We need to notify users with e10s off after some time saying to switch it back on + upgrade to Firebug 3.
  • What should be the logic?
• Honza review: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebug-working-

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• • Florent's patch for Issue 7721

Firebug 3

• Next milestone: beta, alpha 6 released
• Support existing Firebug extension developers and make the transition into Firebug 3 + e10s world easier.
  • Identify and implement necessary API
  • Set of examples showing how to use new API (https://github.com/firebug/devtools-extension-examples)
  • Documentation (e.g. blog posts)

• Honza: working on dynamic actor registration e10s support
  • DONE Bug 1107888 - e10s support for dynamic actor registration
  • Follow up: https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/issues/232
  • new lib/core/rdp module: https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/commit/0ebef259a131040678cda17822c937b38edd2196

• Firebug 3 features
  • Let's identify successful Firebug 2 extensions and think about supporting them (as separate extensions or built in Firebug 3 features).
  • From other meetings: identify top ten extension list

• list of fixed issues in alpha 6 doesn't work
  • https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/blob/master/release-notes.md

• 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.

• How to run extensions
  • JPM is good, but
  • https://github.com/Gozala/jpm-addon

• New API in Firefox
  • Tracing allocations API (demo on MDN)

• Support for HAR is now in Firebug 3
  • More progress necessary (people are asking about NetExport)
  • One bug reported: https://github.com/firebug/netexport/issues/14

Bug triage

• Support for tracing from content child process #241
• TypeError: this.panel.hidePopup is not a function Stack #242

Task List

• Florent: Support for tracing from content child process #241
• Honza: Platform API, actors, Net Export, list top ten extensions
• Aakash: https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/issues/122
• Farshid: Use built-in source editor component #196
• Djalil: ?
• Kartik: Properly style console.table() output #136
• Simon: ?
• bmdeveloper: DONE Scope label has wrong background #229