I've created an <a href="http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?
id=2135">issue #2135</a> for the problem.

On 28 июл, 15:50, "Alex Ryazanov AKA the Marrch Ca'at"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> After reading the topic and trying to make things clear (I experienced
> the same difficultes as Winfield had), and trying to provide you with
> specific test scenarios, I've finally found the solution instead!!
>
> Winfield, there is one thing you need to know to be almost happy with
> FireBug 1.4. It isn't noted neither in docs nor in faq on the site -
> or at least it isn't clear enough. The thing is:
> When you've opened a FB panel on a tab, it automagically becomes
> active for the site opened on that tab. If you don't need that, you
> have to press the off button in the top-right corner of the panel, and
> it will DISABLE firebug FOR THAT SITE ONLY. The firebug icon in
> statusbar will become gray to indicate that. But it will still be
> ACTIVE on all the tabs you need it to be active on, and the icon will
> be orange on that tabs!
> If you need to collapse the panel on any tab you need FB to be active
> on, you just need to click the left of the three top-right icons, and
> that will collapse the panel without disabling it.
>
> Well, then I'm ready to state two issues on the new firebug, one of
> which I treat as a bug and another - as a big disadvantage.
>
> 1. When I expand or collapse the FB panel on any tab it's active, it's
> really expanded and collapsed all over the FireFox (or at least all
> over the FF window, if several windows are opend - I haven't checked
> yet). That means that if I need to switch between two tabs, one of
> which I had to see in full height (e.g. with FB collapsed) and the
> other I needed with FB on (to monitor something), I have to click the
> FB icon once and again and again and again and... Well, that's not a
> problem, but it's really frustrating. I suppose that option to allow
> FB remember the collapsed/expanded state of it's panel on each tab
> separately - would be really wonderful for many developers using it.
>
> 2. When I collapse the FB panel, switch to another tab that FB isn't
> active on and accidentally click on FB icon - FB becomes active and
> expanded. It's not what I want, so I press the Off button, and it's
> disabled and collapsed. But it doesn't treat that as collapsing
> internally, so when I switch to a tab I have FB active on, it's
> automagically expanded. It's a very unclear behavior, and I treat that
> as a bug: if the paradigm is that FB is expanded/collapsed for the
> whole app, not for a single tab, then when I collapse it on one tab it
> should be collpased everywhere - despite the way I did that.
>
> Obviously, the root of both problems is the same: the new idea that FB
> should be expanded/collapsed application-wide, not for a given tab.
> I'm not sure that it's good for all FB users, and I'd supposed making
> the behavior optional. I think there were internal reasons to do so,
> but I don't think it'd be hard to remember one bit (expanded/
> collapsed) for each tab and to restore the expanded/collapsed state
> when switching tab - if user wishes so.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Alex, the Marrch Ca'at.
>
> On 27 июл, 18:20, Winfield <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've been using Firebug actively for several years in web development
> > and I'm very pleased with the FireBug <= v 1.3 behavior (global on vs.
> > global off w/ WhiteList enablement).  It takes a short time to add all
> > of the sites I actively develop on (local dev system, staging,
> > production, etc) and FireBug immediately is enabled only for the
> > places I want it.  Adding new hostnames to the list is straight-
> > forward and easy.
>
> > I upgrade to FireFox 3.5 and firebug 1.4 earlier this week and found
> > the new Enablement system very confusing.  My main use-case is to open
> > and close Firebug repeatedly while it captures JavaScript and Network
> > information, especially JavaScript errors.
>
> > However, Firebug's new "automatic" behavior disables Firebug every
> > time I hide the Firebug pane or switch tabs which usually prevents me
> > from being able to use it again (for example, code that prints to the
> > JS console breaks when the console is repeatedly enabled/disabled by
> > the automatic system).
>
> > I understand the motivations in trying to simplify the configuration
> > and code required for "manual" enable/disable in 1.3 and prior
> > versions, but the new 1.4 system is frustrating and unusable for me.
> > I had to downgrade my development system to FireFox 3.0 and Firebug
> > 1.3 to meet any of my normal development needs.
>
> > I'm sorry to see the vocal anger and disrespectful feedback being left
> > on the groups here.  I completely echo that sentiment.  I waited 4-5
> > days to cool off from how angry/frustrated using Firebug 1.4 made me
> > to try and be civil.
>
> > Please reconsider this new feature!- Скрыть цитируемый текст -
>
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