On Jul 7, 9:57 pm, Nick Foster <[email protected]> wrote:
> Firebug is a great piece of software but the recent change in
> activation is making things tricky for my web development work and
> general browsing.
But our goal is not to be tricky. It is supposed to work great...
>
> For example right now I have 20+ tabs open. I want firebug active on
> them all except my Gmail tab (as it makes Gmail run like a dog) but if
> I click "On for All Web Pages" then the "off" button isn't present so
> I can't disable it for the Gmail domain. If I choose "Off for All Web
> Pages" then I don't have the Gmail issue but if I make Firebug active
> for a tab/domain and then switch tabs when I come back to the original
> tab Firebug is off again.
As currently implemented, the Off for All and On for All won't help
you. They really to mean "all" ;-)
>
> I think the thing that is missing is the ability for Firebug to
> maintain it's state between tab switches - like becoming a background
> process. I am not sure if this is a bug or part of the new feature.
I don't know what you mean here. Firebug maintains meta-data for each
tab you've activated it on. But if you select a tab that is not
active, like GMail, then Firebug suspends. Background activity on the
other tabs is not tracked while suspended. Note that the Firefox tabs
are an illusion: there is only one process here and one set of debug
APIs. We cannot suspend GMail and not the other tabs (well actually I
think we could get close by filtering, but we don't do it yet).
>
> Either way perhaps you can help me by suggesting the settings I should
> use to enable Firebug permanently on certain tabs but disable it
> permanently on other tabs, and I still want to be able to minimise
> Firebug (but it carries on running) for the tabs it is activated on -
> as far as I can see this is only possible with domain based
> activation?
I guess you are another victim of the [X] change. I'll spare you the
detail and go right to the suggestion:
1. Uncheck On for all and Off for all.
2. On the sites you want to debug, open Firebug. That activates
Firebug for the site.
3. Don't push [X]. That deactivates the site, you don't want it.
4. To minimize, either use the [_] minimize function or hit the
Firebug Status bar icon.
5. To unminimize, hit the Firebug Status bar icon.
Note that minimize is a property of Firebug now, not of the site/tab.
F12 is bound to the same toggle by default.
jjb
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