On May 14, 12:03 am, Ricardo <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> I've been using 1.4 for a about two weeks now and I'm not very fond of
> it. I couldn't answer the simple question "is firebug on or off?". On
The Firebug status bar icon is supposed to answer this question:
grey: panels disabled or suspended.
orange: panels enabled
hover text: status of Firebug.
> 1.3 I'd usually enable it for any site I was working on, knowing it
> would always be there waiting to appear on the press of a button. In
The difference in 1.4 is that Firebug will be waiting to appear on the
press of a button and you won't need to enable it.
> 1.4 pressing F12 not only show/hides it but "activates" an instance
> for the current page, or something like that. That's awkard. I never
> used the minimize/close buttons before, only F12. If I went to a site
> that I was curious about, I'd just enable it and refresh the page.
In 1.4 you just open Firebug and refresh the page.
>
> One thing that really bothers me in this new model is that it doesn't
> show errors or allow you to inspect anything before it's visible.
> Those are the two things I used the most, a quick look for errors on
> the status bar and right-clicking an element / Inspect without having
> to bring it up first. It's counter-productive.
There is not too much we can do about the 'show errors' problem: we
need help from Firefox and they don't seem interested in fixing it.
The problem is that we can't count errors for a page without
activating Firebug (this was not a problem back in the first versions
of Firebug because there were very few AJAX apps).
The right-click Inspect was just a bug that got fixed when it was
reported.
>
> Also I'm not sure about the impact on performance it has (and I
> haven't noticed any difference) but GMail won't stop complaining and
> freezing, and I like to keep it open all day.
If you have Gmail tab open, then Firebug should say: suspended. If not
then you need to close firebug on the Gmail page. Right now you do
that by opening firebug and closing it. Maybe we should have a context
menu item to help you.
>
> I just uninstalled and went back to 1.3 for now, as it's still quite
> buggy/slow and the large icons/top bar are annoying.
? you mean 1.3 is buggy and slow?
jjb
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