Well, if you run the tracing version, 1.4X or 1.5X, with option
CONSOLE you should get some crude trace.

See http://groups.google.com/group/firebug/web/faq-about-firebug

Plus you can always use window.dump().

The Console is a DIV element in an HTML page. Each web page has a
separate Console. So we could merge the output from all pages and not
clear it.

jjb

On Jul 20, 8:26 pm, Stefan Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> On 21/07/09 02:51, johnjbarton wrote:
>
> > On Jul 20, 4:50 pm, stefanw <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Is there a way to use Firebug to debug the window's unload event? Some
> >> libraries have a lot of cleanup scheduled for unload, and I'm finding
> >> it hard to see what's going on. There are two things that could help,
> >> but I don't know if Firebug supports either of them or how to activate
> >> them:
>
> > Have you tried setting a breakpoint in the unload handler?
>
> Yes, and it works well if you know where to look, but I think it would
> also be handy to have kind of log file over the last few requests.
>
> >> - an option not to clear the console log when a new page is loaded
>
> > This is often requested, I guess we ask Firefox team about this. I
> > know it sounds easy, but the sequence of event is like this:
>
> > User request reload (Firebug does not know this).
> > Web page is deleted. Firebug cleans up.
> > Web page is loaded. Firebug starts up.
>
> Ah. I thought that Firebug persisted between requests (at least the
> extension's window does, when it's detached). I wouldn't presume to
> suggest that this was an easy change - I hardly know anything about the
> Firebug internals.
>
> > So we don't know that the load is a reload.
>
> It wouldn't have to be a reload, a persistent log would also be helpful
> during normal navigation. Coming from the server side, I'm used to
> having log files running in a terminal all the time, and I often miss
> them when I'm doing client-side JS development.
> I haven't played around with Firebug's source code yet, so I don't know
> how much work such a feature would be... It seems to me (from an
> outsider's point of view) that a minimal solution could be to make
> Firebug observable - meaning that it would fire events when the
> console's contents change. This way, a script in a separate window could
> attach itself to Firebug and listen to these events, and then choose to
> ignore any 'clear' events. Just a thought.
>
> > If we don't clear the console when the page is deleted, then when do we?
>
> Ideally, when the Firebug user deactivates the hypothetical "persist
> messages" option again :-)  Don't know if that's feasible, though.
>
> regards,
> stefan
>
> --
> LOAD"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!",8,1
> RUN!
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