Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2010-03-23

Survey

http://blog.getfirebug.com/2010/03/22/recommend-firebug-1-5/

1.6

• 1.6a8
• FF 3.6: All pass
• FF 3.7: 4-5 failing tests most spy-related.

Command Line / Console

• http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/6ac9261d44b89948#
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549539
• Set aside for now

Tests

• Honza testing on remote Mac
• http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/46c05b21db45c244#
• Test w/Firefox
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532445
• IRC test hour for Firebug/Firefox ?

Memory

• Profiling extension memorybug based on work of Atul Varma, Dion Almer
• Works with jetpack installed
• How to get component installed.
• Is it useful?
• result of profiling is graph
  • backpointers!
• Function
  • script size
  • object size
  • properties, but not object

Seems promising.

• http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Firebug_Memory_Profiler