I also loved the 1.3 behavior. After trying out 1.4 for a while, here's what's made me downgrade to 1.3:
- Easy workflow - Enabling a site was a one-time operation and that was a miniscule amount of effort since sites that I debug are usually ones that I work on frequently. - Screen real estate - my laptop doesn't have the vertical real estate to always have the firebug panel open, but I always want the console running. A separate window doesn't help because I usually need to see both Firebug and the site I'm working on at the same time, so a pop- out window just obscures what I'm trying to see and I have to keep moving it out of the way. - Error notification - even when I wasn't debugging client-side things, it was *fantastic* to get the red "error" notification by the firebug icon (with firebug collapsed) to help me catch bugs early on and to let me know that something bad had happened. - Bug reproducibility - By always having the console running I have a backtrace available as soon as I hit a bug and tracking down hard-to- reproduce bugs is much easier. If laptops had a lot more vertical screen real estate maybe I could just leave firebug open all the time. Even then, however, it's pretty distracting visually when you're not using it but incredibly useful to have running. Is there anything I can do in the new paradigm to solve these issues? Am I missing a new workflow that I'm not getting? Thanks for the fantastic tool, by the way. On Jul 28, 3:10 am, Nick Fitzsimons <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/7/28 HershelSR <[email protected]>: > > > > > RE: Poll > > > Your analogy is actually incorrect. Entirely incorrect. Were you to > > post a link to a poll on your home page and/or Mozilla project page > > then your cross sample of poll respondents could be reasonably assumed > > to be distributed more or less evenly amongst your user base. > > That's not a reasonable assumption at all. The vast majority of > Firebug users will probably only visit any web page associated with it > once: when they first download it. After that, they will rely on > automatic updates; they'll never see the Firebug home page or project > page again. > > Publicising a link to a poll here is also going to select a very > skewed sample. I suspect that the number of Firebug users who ever > look at this group, never mind look at it regularly, would probably be > considerably less than 5% of the total number of users. > > Regards, > > Nick. > -- > Nick Fitzsimonshttp://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
