Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2014-01-28

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Steven Roussey, Jakob Kaltenbrunner, Simon Lindholm, Belakhdar Abdeldjalil,

Meeting Agenda: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firebug

Releases

• Firebug 1.13 alpha 8
  • released last week

• Firebug 1.12.7 preparation
  • Honza: done issue 7126
  • Simon: Port Issue 7144: DebuggerLib.getInactiveDebuggeeGlobal can provide debuggers from a destroyed context
  • Simon: Port Issue 7145: getEventListeners includes the HTML panel mutation observer

Swarms

• The future of Swarms?
  • Maybe it is a project for Steven
  • Let's hear from Steven next week

Issues from last time

• Issue 6991: Ctrl+Shift+C conflicts with Firefox DevTools' Inspector
  • Honza: asking for opinion here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.developer-tools/HPsOUXaGkl0

• Issue 7108: Stop using Attr.ownerElement
  • Djalil: is working on this
  • Should be a 1.12 blocker
  • Broken in Nightly
  • Should be done this week
  • Ask Honza to test, review, etc.

• Issue 7120: Absolute Xpath
  • If there is no ID: Copy XPath
  • If there is an ID: Copy Minimal XPath
  • Jakob: implement this

School project by Simon

• Wasn't accepted
• But Djalil has more news about Google Summer of Code
  • Djalil: send and email with tips
  • Mozilla: https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode

JSD2 Bug Triage

• Issue 6828: Script panel detect no javascript when reopening a tab
  • Florent?

• Issue 6850: Searching for text in the script panel doesn't work
  • Sebastian: will create a branch with all changes
  • Honza: take a look

• Issue 6867: Setting conditional breakpoints slows down the execution of the JS
  • Honza: Merge with the JSD2

• Issue 6937: Jumping through Source Links removes yellow arrows of triggered breakpoints
  • Florent?

• Issue 6948: Instructions of the global scope are not always detected as executable
  • Honza: Fixed, but still slow for Simon?
  • Optimization: E.g. if a script is not GCed after 10 seconds, then it probably never will be
  • Honza: do it

• Issue 6955: Right-clicking breakpoint column doesn't always open the breakpoint condition editor
  • Sebastian: work on this

• Issue 6961: Command Editor loses focus when switching between Command Line
  • Simon: will take care

• Issue 7029: Script panel always claims "No Javascript on this page" until reload
  • Honza: Done (some analyses yet)

• Issue 7041: Console API stack traces are broken
  • Simon: will have a look

• Issue 7079: Implement Break On Next in the script panel
  • Florent?

• Issue 7082: OSX style issues in new UI
  • Thomas?
  • Steven: test on OSX, help Thomas.

• Issue 7084: Changing the text size doesn't resize the toolbar and search box height
• Issue 7088: Command Editor buttons don't have the height of the toolbar
  • Sebastian: will use rem units to fix this

• Issue 7097: Support for dynamically evaluated scripts
  • Honza: in-progress (still blocked by the platform)
  • Honza: Ping JimB again

• Issue 7147: Script panel should be consistent in which script to show first
  • Honza: take a look

• Issue 7044: Source lines should be shown even when Script panel is disabled
  • nsITraceableChannel is slow and ideally used only for the Net panel
  • But we need to do something about it
  • Tab cache is also needed for CSS editing, font preview, and maybe more
  • Can we do some benchmarks?