Sorry, but what does 8,000 beta users have to do with anything (and how is such a number tracked, anyway? I've downloaded Firebug alphas/ betas from at least 5 unique locations and I'm sure many others have done the same)? The people posting here are the people that care about Firebug development, and the ratio represented should, roughly, correlate back to that entire 8,000. If not, then what use is any statistical analysis in the world today? They wouldn't do it if the methods weren't mostly proven. Frankly, if satisfaction rate is anywhere near 50%, I would see changing the activation model as an utter failure and complete waste of time (I'm sorry to say).
The current functionality is overcomplicated and inconvenient. Here's how I explained it to a friend (and this is all true based on my testing of 1.4b3): you click the bug, it turns on for the current tab you refresh, and all the panels work for the current page oh, but first you have to right click the bug and say "enable all panels" if you click the bug then firebug will stay open on that tab if you want to hide the panel, you have to click minimize not the x [confusing] if you mistakenly click the x, you have to then click the bug, refresh the page, then minimize if it's minimized and you go to another page, it disables if you go back to a page it was enabled on, it re-enables but of course if you hit the x on accident, it forgets that setting Okay, now let's compare that to 1.3: Click bug check three boxes click a button So, how can we continue to claim this is not more complex? It absolutely is! On Jul 1, 2:32 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, but you are taking 72% of a tiny fraction of all Firebug users. > > > We had about 8,000 beta users, so even if 40 people here did not like > > > it, 40/8000 is only 0.5%, so we have 99.5% satisfied users. Do you > > > buy that? Me neither, so let's give up trying to count people who > > > complain. > > > You're assuming that 100% of the people who didn't like it complained. > > You bet. Any assumption is as good as any other one. Which is why one > can't use it as a proxy for voting. > jjb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
