Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2010-05-18

Daily testing for Firebug + Firefox

• Bug 559466 Integrate firebug test suite with automated tests
• Triage Process
  • Contact page, platform triage person?
• Bug 532445 run unit tests (daily?) with Firebug installed in testing profiles

Architecture Review underway

• 1.6 Architecture

1.6 on FF 3.7

• wrapper problem already being worked on
• command line debug problem.

Crossfire

• Accelerated 1.7 work to get Firebug for Fennec
  • DONE: firebug.js namespace issue because FBL.initialize() needs to be called before Firebug.initialize()
  • TODO: Reverse relationship between TabWatcher and Firebug
  • TODO: Command line flags to init firebug from crossfile (module vs panels)
  • Test case for re-attach

JSD v2

• Seems to be getting a plan.
• DONE Need to comment

Breakpoints

• save error etc. breakpoints?
• duplicate saved breakpoints
• hit count http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=2817

Wiki Reorganization

• sidebar to panels list

Chromebug

• Go to 1.6b1 with Firebug 1.6b1
• Recommend to Firefox team: version 1.6a10 for now + Firebug 1.6a10

Memory

• TODO Try to make referents value be object paths
• Testcase
• updated doc with new screenshots for a quick look
• per-object API
  • harder than we thought: must pass objects into profiler to get ids, then get refs in id form
  • See also jsd_GetJSDObjectForJSObject
  • memory profiler IDs seem to be pointers to JSObject
  • TODO : cannot get objects in closure
  • Performance could still be a problem
  • TODO: what sizes make sense for objects
  • Reorg platform sub-directory binary dll
• another memory tool proposed
• parent pointer

Velocity

• June 22-24, Santa Clara
• jjb volunteers, in contact with organizers.

The Firebug Velocity demo will feature new features in the Net panel, new comprehensive breakpoint support, and a sneek peek at our next version. In Firebug 1.5 we reimplemented the Net panel to dramatically improve the timing accuracy and to support exporting the traffic analysis info. The export format was designed to be compatible with HTTPWatch. We added breakpoint support from every panel: I'll demo using Javascript breakpoints from XHR events and Cookies. Firebug 1.6 integrates Firebug extensions to give you a jolt of new features all pretested with Firebug.

Issues for 1.6

• console.table() Honza
• TODO 2) double click.
• TODO 149
• Console
  • TODO: remove attributes from the BODY tags

1.5.4

• DONE, look good.

Break On Errors balloon update

• button labels?

CSS injection for inspector

• TODO ask radcliffe about canvas
• TODO user style sheets for CSS injection?

Swarm

• Add swarm extension <your SVN>/extensions/swarm/branches/swarm1.5
• Load file://<your SVN>/extensions/swarm/branches/swarm1.5/swarms/basic.html into FBTest to see current status
• working on signature code

Bugs

updated March of the Firebugs