On Jul 9, 10:57 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 9, 1:43 pm, FoamHead <[email protected]> wrote: > > Above aside, as a relatively lightweight FireBug user, I don't > > understand why FireBug should even care what the URL of the site is. > > As a relatively lightweight Firebug user, you should not need to care > about the the whitelist/blacklist either.
I find that statement perplexing. Clearly FoamHead *does* care, else he would not have come to complain about it. More than that, I believe you have misjudged just what sort of Firebug user it is that wants the whitelist and blacklist. Suppose for the sake of argument that Foam is a lightweight Firebug user because Firebug is merely one of five different sophisticated development plugins he uses every day, each with its own particularities about being activated and deactivated. The more each can do to automate that, the better. Now, such a dev, having a status bar full of specialized tools working in concert, is well-described as a hardcore *Firefox* user. But it does not follow that he is a hardcore *Firebug* user. In fact, it is this very softcoreness that *requires* that Firebug have whitelists and blacklists, since someone who uses Firebug exclusively is less likely to care about having to babysit it. (Come to think of it, this all suggests a strong use case for a new Firefox plugin - one that does nothing but handle (de)activation rules for arbitrary other plugins.) Anyway. It's not just a few diehard Firebug snobs that need this feature. Your repeated framing of this as "experienced" or "hardcore" users vs. "novices" and "lightweights" is simply false. - Luke --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
