Firebug

This page is for tracking the integration of Firebug into Firefox.

Potential Integration Issues

These are issues that could be problematic.

Issue 97 - Firebug outputs too many warnings in the JS error console

Status: Patch submitted, but unacceptable to project maintainer.

Disucssion: Joe feels that strict mode warnings need to be adjusted, so I filed Bug 381223. I feel that if we are targeting this to web developers, the errors in chrome won't be an issue since those are not displayed by default. However, if we expand the target group to Extension Developers, this will be a serious issue. There are easily over 50 strict warnings with startup alone, so it will be next to impossible for extension authors to find their own strict warnings.

Issue 160 - Firebug lacks full chrome under FreeBSD (and probably any platform except Darwin, Linux, linux-gnu, and WINNT)

Status: Researching.

Disucssion: Reporter posted a fix that I need to investigate more.

Issue 194 - Firebug should be able to inspect chrome

Status: Researching.

Disucssion:

Bug 346664

Status: See Bug.

Disucssion: See Bug.

Bug 344751

Status: See Bug.

Disucssion: See Bug.

Issue 159 - dir("") report String.prototype's defined in other extensions

Status: Researching.

Disucssion: Conflicts with other extensions, especially the Web Developer Extension, aren't good.

Issue 153 - clicking on 'HTML' closes Firefox

Status: Researching.

Disucssion: Linux crash? Needs QA.

Issue 147 - Firefox crashes with firebug

Status: Researching.

Disucssion: Linux crash? Needs QA.

Issue 142 - Restore closed tab adds current page to end of history

Status: Researching.

Disucssion: This might not even be a Firebug bug. Needs QA.

Issue 139 - 100% CPU and continually incrementing memory usage after closing popup window

Status: Researching.

Disucssion: Needs QA.

Issue 127 - Firebug memory leak - over 600 MiB seen used

Status: Researching.

Disucssion: Seems to be related to XMLHttpRequests.

Fixed Issues

These are issues that have patches submitted and committed.

• Issue 182 - Get firebug to build with Mozilla's build system

Possible Issues to enhance

http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:GijsKruitbosch/JS_Debugging/Tasks

Non-Issues

Issue that were once listed as potential ones or have been concerns people have brought up, but have since been deemed non-issues.

Issue 166 - Without DOM Inspector, message displays HTML code in style window

Why not: I originally misread this as "Firebug requires DOM Inspector. Oops.

Firebug Requires DOM Inspector

Why not: Firebug only uses inIDOMUtils, which, as of Firefox 2.0, is built with layout.