Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-11-01

Jan Odvarko, Pedro Simonetti, Sebastian Zartner

Firebug 1.9

• 1.9a5 released
• List of 1.9 blockers

• Release 1.8.4 (compatible with Firefox 9)
  • Honza: this week

• Firebug 1.9 Switch to beta
  • Create a new branch (1.10) as soon as it's necessary (to save time with backporting), https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebug-working-group/qawYIvn9kuw

Issues

• Activation problem, Honza will test remotely with the reporter, Issue 4875: Firebug is active in unnecessary tab, put "I found a bug" into the report.

• Honza: hunting down memory leaks, this should be fixed in Firebug 1.9 final

• Honza: Documentation needed "Reset All Firebug Options"

• Sebastian watching: Issue 4758: "NetworkError: 401 Unauthorized - [url]" NTLM authentication issue

• Sebastian working on Issue 3071: Display sample of WOFF file inside Net Panel

• Honza: Documentation for Firebug.registerExtension function. Perhaps a blog post about how to create a Firebug extension based on AMD and RequireJS.

Firebug Swarms

• No progress this week
• Saving to the database is working
• Loading needs to be done

E10S & Remote Debugging

• Honza: Kick off a discussion about Firebug architecture refactoring on FWG.