Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-09-13

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Jan Honza Odvarko, Mike Rennie, Grant Gayed, Pedro Simonetti

Firebug 1.8

Firebug 1.8.3 released this week (compatibile with Firefox 8)
- Firefox 8 moves to beta on September 27 (schedule)
- Backport: Issue 4811: No file name shown for requested URL paths

Firebug 1.9

1.9a2 released
Firebug UI embedded in a <browser> element (Robo Form and Status Bar fixed)
FIXED Issue 4689: Add option to copy parts of JSON data (Tasoss)

Issues:

Issue 1179: Actions do not move the program counter after Step Into if breakpoint is on first line of function (Honza)
Issue 4128: use swapDocShells for detaching (Amirjanyan)

Added more information to the March of the Firebugs page. Short summary of the statistics (Sebastian):
- Most of the new issues are finally triaged/closed now
- Many long untouched issues and issues without info were checked by me
- Issues needing FBTests are increasing
- Still need help with triaging NetExport and Chromebug issues

Firebug TestBot

4 tests fails in 1.9a2 (negative failures)
Pedro to write some more test for the HTML panel, progress?

FBTrace

FBTrace embeds Firefox built-in Source Editor (based on Orion)
The editor doesn't support breakpoint column, but it could be added by Firebug.

Memory Leaks

NEEDS MORE WORK Bug 669730 - Firebug causes immortal zombie compartments
- Some work still needed
- Description about tracing event listeners.

Firebug Swarms

Still under construction
Done:
- Version comparison with the user agent
- Version comparison with the (automatically) selected Firebug version

Open tasks:
- Improve version comparator
- Change data caching to database (see bug 677690)
- Read icon from XPI

E10S & Remote Debugging & Crossfire

JSD2 in nightlies
Bug 666713 - Dynamic analysis of chrome->content operations in Firefox
- Waiting for an XPCOM service that forwards logs to JS for dynamic analysis.

Firebug & Lite

Using a small library to access localStorage in the browser (user data in IE).
Firebug Lite 1.4 release this week.

getfirebug.com

Perch still doesn't work properly (wiki is fixed) bug 639438
Fixing Bug 684704 - move getfirebug.com to new generic cluster in phx1 could also fix Bug 639438 - Wiki and Perch on getfirebug.com require login again and again.