There have been a number of performance improvements since 1.2, based on user reported test cases of performance problems. As far as I know there is one current reported problem on the DOM panel. So currently the feedback is "the performance is acceptable".
jjb On Jul 21, 12:52 pm, ak732 <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Firebug is awesome. Can't live without it. But in the versions after > 1.2, I'm experiencing a performance problem so bad we cannot use > them. Wasn't a problem until FF3.5, where 1.2 is no longer > compatible. > > I'm not really complaining so much as thinking I must have some setup > issue. There's no way that it can be this slow for everyone. Here > are the details... > > We have a web application I mostly run/debug on localhost. It's a > single-page app, that renders data in grids that are inside draggable, > floating "windows" (divs) with all the various bells. All rendering > is handled via Javascript on the client, with all communication to the > server done via AJAX. It makes heavy use of jQuery. > > When debugging, there are a lot of individual Javascript files that we > merge and min into a single file for distribution. But obviously I > need Firebug to work with the indivual files for debugging. There's a > single CSS file. And there are a lot of pretty small image files for > things like icons, backgrounds, etc. > > On Firefox 3.0, w/Firebug 1.2x, everything in the app from initial > page load to dragging 1000x1000 px grids around to paging through huge > datasets is near instantaneous. Just very very fast. > > On Firefox 3.0, w/Firebug 1.3x, everything slows down tremendously. > Just loading the initial page takes anywhere from 3-5 seconds on > localhost (used to be instant on localhost, <1s via fast DSL > connection). Most of the time seems to be during the loading of the > many small images and javascript source files. AJAX performance is > greatly slowed as well. > > So we stuck with Firebug 1.2x and waited for each new Firebug release > to test if performance had improved. Now, with Firefox 3.5, w/Firebug > 1.4x, things are perhaps even slower. No improvement, maybe even some > degradation. > > I'm wondering if I'm the only one to see this significant performance > difference? Or is there perhaps some setting or system issue causing > the performance meltdown? > > I'm running on a pretty fast laptop w/Windows Vista 32bit, 4GB RAM, > dual-core processor. And as I've said, since 1.2 is screamingly fast, > it doesn't seem like a hardware thing. > > Note that even with all Firebug 1.4x panels disabled, performance is > still really, really slow as compared to 1.2 > > Things I've tried: > > - creating a new profile > - installing Firefox 3.5 > - ensuring that javascript.options.strict is set to 'false' > - disabling all panels for all sites > > Has anybody else seen this very slow performance problem? Is there > something I can tweak to get the newer Firebug versions to work at a > more useable speed? > > Thanks for any help. > > Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
