Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2010-05-11

Daily testing for Firebug + Firefox

• DONE Text based output rather than JSON, same as mochitest
• Need a location for setting three values
  • firebug xpi file URL
  • fbtest xpi file URL
  • test suite SVN revision.
• where to see the results.

1.6 on FF 3.7

• wrapper problem already being worked on
• command line debug problem.

Crossfire

• Accelerated 1.7 work to get Firebug for Fennec
  • DONE: firebug.js namespace issue because FBL.initialize() needs to be called before Firebug.initialize()
  • TODO: Reverse relationship between TabWatcher and Firebug
  • TODO: Command line flags to init firebug from crossfile (module vs panels)
  • Test case for re-attach

JSD v2

• Seems to be getting a plan.
• Need to comment

Chromebug

• Go to 1.6b1 with Firebug 1.6b1
• Recommend to Firefox team: version 1.6a10 for now + Firebug 1.6a10

Memory

• TODO Try to make referents value be object paths
• Testcase
• updated doc with new screenshots for a quick look
• per-object API
  • harder than we thought: must pass objects into profiler to get ids, then get refs in id form
  • See also jsd_GetJSDObjectForJSObject
  • memory profiler IDs seem to be pointers to JSObject
  • TODO : cannot get objects in closure
  • Performance could still be a problem
  • TODO: what sizes make sense for objects
  • Reorg platform sub-directory binary dll
• another memory tool proposed
• parent pointer

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The rest was not discussed in the call, but it here for next week.

Issues for 1.6

• TODO 2) double click.
• TODO 149
• Console
  • TODO: remove attributes from the BODY tags

Velocity

• June 22-24, Santa Clara
• jjb volunteers, in contact with organizers.

1.5.4

• DONE, look good.

Break On Errors balloon update

• button labels?

CSS injection for inspector

• TODO ask radcliffe about canvas
• TODO user style sheets for CSS injection?

Swarm

• Add swarm extension <your SVN>/extensions/swarm/branches/swarm1.5
• Load file://<your SVN>/extensions/swarm/branches/swarm1.5/swarms/basic.html into FBTest to see current status
• working on signature code

Breakpoints

• save error etc. breakpoints?
• duplicate saved breakpoints
• hit count http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=2817

Wiki Reorganization

• sidebar to panels list

Bugs

updated March of the Firebugs