Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-09-06

Jan Honza Odvarko, Grant Gayed, Pedro Simonetti, Mike Rennie, Steven Roussey, Sebastian Zartner

Firebug 1.8

• Firebug 1.8.2 released
  • Is compatible with Firefox 7
  • Release 1.8.3? (compatibility with Firefox 8)
  • Firefox 8 moves to beta on September 27 (schedule)

Firebug 1.9

• Release 1.9a2?

• Use in-frame version again?
  • Solve status bar issues in SeaMonkey and Firefox. Issue 4804: RequireJS breaks status bar in SeaMonkey
  • Solve the RoboForm problem. Issue 4720: RoboForm breaks opening new windows in Firefox

• Release 1.9a2 ?

Firebug TestBot

• Some tests fails since fixes are not in 1.9a1
• Pedro to write some more test for the HTML panel.

Memory Leaks

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

Firebug Swarms

• Sebastian in charge
  • David Camp tries to get more attention Bug 677690

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 weeek.
• Pedro to create a donation report (post on FWG).

getfirebug.com

• Perch still doesn't work properly (wiki is fixed) bug 639438