Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2012-05-08

Jan Odvarko, Joe Walker, Christoph Dorn, Steven Roussey

General

• There is no way to have a static link for hangout
• What about to switch to Vidyo? (installed on Mozilla server)

Firebug 1.10

• 1.9.2 out (waiting on AMO review)
• 1.10a8 this Friday?
• List of 1.10 blockers

Trace Styles Feature

Sebastian made great progress on issue 2916 and refactored the Computed side panel:

• Infotips for colors, images and fonts
• Persistent scrolling and folding state
• Panel option to only show user-defined styles
• Context menu options to expand / collapse all styles
• Rebased on the web dev tools APIs
• Refactored and centralized code shared between the CSS panel, the Style and the Computed side panel

HTTP Monitor

Good progress on HTTP Monitor.

• Some details related to remote monitoring fixed (e.g. DOMContentLoad and load events properly sent from the server)
• FBTrace remoting (sending FBTrace logs to the client), useful especially for mobile development.
• Started embedding back to Firebug

Firebug Remote Debugging UI

• Thread in the discussion group

Extensions

• API for Jetpack based extensions
  • Issue 4977: firebug interface package for addon-sdk (jetpack)
• To test you can use jetpack-firebug
• https://github.com/cadorn/jetpack-firebug/blob/master/lib/firebug.js
• Problems:
  • Firebug.registerExtension is not available since the beginning
  • Add a new config field 'mainModule' URL to the main module to load

Automated Tests

• Clint Talbert, work still in-progress
• Mike: adopting Net panel tests to mochitest.