Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2012-04-10

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Joe Walker, Christoph Dorn, Steven Roussey

Firebug 1.10

• 1.10.0a7 this week?
  • There are two fixes for compatibility with Firefox Nightly.

• List of 1.10 blockers

• Honza: Set up a new Firebug page for Google+ hangouts

• https://www.ohloh.net/p/firebug, remove all SVN repos?
  • Honza: remove SVN repo

Backport to 1.9

• Low risk:
  • Issue 2767: Edit element style from computed style does nothing
  • Issue 5216: "Break On This Error" missing from the context menu
  • Issue 5225: Half-rendered panel shown off-place when clicking magnifier in search field
  • Issue 5239: Ctrl-0 zoom requests are intercepted by Firebug
  • Issue 5299: HTML panel doesn't get updated, if nodes are changed at another panel
  • Issue 5303: Display of Style side panel fails for invalid character in string
  • Issue 5360: domplate issue with BR() in it
  • Issue 5205: "Enable JavaScript and Refresh" doesn't work

HTTP Monitor

• First draft version available
• source code
• Quick how to use
• Next step: code clean up + remoting

New Blockers

• FIXED Issue 5299: HTML panel doesn't get updated, if nodes are changed at another panel

Extensions

• API for Jetpack based extensions
  • http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/browse_thread/thread/7a287a5aa53601d1
• Jetpack-firebug
• Try to run a simple JetPack Firebug Extension and test with Firebug

• Christiph: file a bug related to Jetpack based extension API

Automated Tests

• FIXED: The test-bot needs files from from GIT (bug 734368)

JSD2

• Having support for remote debugging is probably a must
• It would be nice to have a good extensible architecture that can support different debug protocols (v8, crossfire)