The discussions on this newsgroup helped me realize that another way of explaining the user interface in 1.4 may help people familiar with the 1.3 mechanism.
In 1.4 you add a domain to the whitelist by opening Firebug on a page in that domain. So for example if you open the URL http://getfirebug.com, then open Firebug, the domain getfirebug.com is added to the whitelist. If you subsequently open http://blog.getfirebug.com, Firebug will be opened because getfirebug.com is on the whitelist. In 1.4 you add a domain to the blacklist by clicking [X] in the upper right corner of Firebug when Firebug is open on a page in that domain. Continuing the example above, while on http://blog.getfirebug.com, if you click the [X] button Firebug closes. When you go back to http://getfirebug.com, Firebug is still closed because getfirebug.com is on the blacklist. A few details: First the mechanism used for the tests is closer to the same-origin policy of Firefox than simple domain comparison. The case that will probably confuse people is http vs https: Firebug like Firefox considers http://getfirebug.com to be different than https://getfirebug.com. Second, this description assumes you have 1.4b5 or later and that you leave the default option Activate Same Origin checked. Third, under the covers the white list is implemented with Firefox page annotation database. The annotation name is "firebug/history", whitelist pages are marked "firebugged.showFirebug" and blacklist pages are marked "firebugged.closed". Finally, Firebug 1.4 does not have a way to view the annotations or to remove individual annotation. You can remove all of the current annotations by using Firebug status bar icon right click menu "Off for all pages". Hope this helps, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
