Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2013-05-21

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Simon Lindholm, Florent Fayolle, Gal Steinitz

Releases

• Firebug 1.12 alpha 6 release last week

Firebug Lite

• Moved to github.com
• Honza: sent an email with instructions how to get SVN access

Miscellaneous

• Farshid joining other mozillians in Paris in a month.
  • Working on Firebug presentation
  • Sebastian: send Farshid en email with links to existing slides
  • Sebastian: put slide templates to the repo
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/meetupmozfr

1.11 Blockers

• We need a new issue for the broken context menu
  • Honza: analyzed, won't happen again
• Issue 6436: XMLHttpRequests not displayed in Console tab with FF 17, FB 1.11.3
  • Honza: FIXED
• Issue 6451: Pseudo-element rules not applying to elements are displayed
  • Sebastian: FIXED

• Various reports say Firefox is slow
  • Bug 848665 - Enormous amounts of CPU time spent in ScriptFrameIter
  • We should all test Firebug 1.11.3 on Firefox 21/22

• We want Firebug 1.11.4
  • As soon as the slow problem is fixed

TestBot

• New tests created (searching)
• css-logic module import fixed
• Some tests fixed
• the last failing: use evalInGlobalWithBindings() instead of eval()

• Test results DB is big, we need auto-removal bot

Firebug 1.12

• Issue 6461: Show all kinds of pseudo-elements
  • Follow up for Issue 6451
  • Blocked by: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=874227

• Issue 4979: Group console messages
  • Sebastian, FIXED!

• Issue 6422: Add a right click option for accessing objects in the Command Line
  • We should improve this

• Issue 6402: Don't abuse the debugger service for injecting "console"
  • Honza: check, extensions.firebug.preferJSDSourceLinks
  • Can we use JSD2 to get proper stack traces for the Console panel?
  • Florent: do some analyses of stack traces & related test failures
  • We should discuss again the next time

• Issue 6447: Improve display of timings in net request infotip
  • Honza: FIXED

Code Mirror

• Farshid, working on Command Editor

JSD2 Adoption

• Adopting FBTest API
  • Honza: still working on the adoption