Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2013-11-05

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Florent Fayolle, Simon Lindholm, Jakob Kaltenbrunner, Belakhdar Abdeldjalil

Releases

• Firebug 1.13 alpha 5
  • Honza: Should be released on Friday
  • Fixed issues: http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/list?can=2&q=status%3ACommit+-label%3Aextension+-label%3Ajsd2
  • No new features just an update.

Firebug Lite

• Gal Steinitz doesn't have time anymore for FB Lite
• Honza: there is a pull request, ask the guy if he wants to join/merge/release new version

Platform

• Bug 815603: JSD.pause and unPause is slow
  • We need the workaround for avoiding pause/unPause until it's fixed on the platform.
  • We need to discuss in the bugzilla bug.
  • We can improve the warning (keep it there all the time, remove Got It button)
  • Simon's response: I don't think we should back it out, either. Better improve our warnings etc.

Right, and make the log row slightly smaller. We do have a real problem in that disabling Firebug in every tab still doesn't disable the debugger; we have to fix that. It might actually even make sense to disable the debugger when minimizing Firebug? Because I suspect some users minimize rather than disable Firebug when they don't use it. We should call jsd.off() when Firebug is disabled in all tabs. IMO

Issues

• Issue 6923: Reimplement PixelPerfect in Firebug
  • Simon: I'd like to see a single button in the HTML panel toolbar that toggles that floating window.
  • Let's continue discussing about having the feature implemented as an extension or built in Firebug in the bug report.

• Issue 6898: Ask for an API to extend the hooked console Object
  • Florent's waiting for feedback
  • No feedback from the rest of team
  • Sebastian: will provide a feedback

• Issue 6934: A red circle should appear when checking "Break on Property Change" in the watch panel
  • Breakpoint column in the Watch panel: rather no (at least no at this point)
  • Object.watch is obsolete already: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=934669

JSD2

• We need more testing
  • Florent did a great job with testing, we need more!
  • Before we do alpha release from jsd2 branch we need all tests green.
  • We also need to adopt test harness.
  • Sebastian: test Firebug 1.12.3 + Firefox try-build and provide feedback to Boris.
  • Try build link: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/try-builds/bzbarsky@mozilla.com-72b2776834de/try-win32/

Crossfire

• FWG will replace it by RDP

Blogging

• Sebastian still working on this blog
• We need some topics to blog about.
• Sebastian will kick off a email thread with Sören to put together a plan for a post about Firebug

Reviews

Simon: could anyone review my HTML auto-completion patches?

• Issue 6814: Auto-complete CSS styles within the HTML "style" attribute
• Issue 3700: Add auto-completion for HTML attributes
  • Honza: should take a look