Well I hate to disappoint you but we don't know how to do the scenario I outlined. It certainly was not what 1.3 supported because the gray firebug means exactly that there is no background activity. Otherwise you can't read your gmail.
Or to say it differently: there is no background/foreground. There is only Firebug is active or suspended. You can't have Firebug suspended on one page and active on another. Its not about the UI, its how Firebug works. You *can* get firebug to have activity on tabs you are not looking at. Just open Firebug on all the tabs, so the Firebug icon stays orange. Is that what all that talk about conflating visibility and activation was about? That would explain why I found the discussion puzzling. jjb On Jul 28, 2:43 pm, Winfield <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't want to speak for nod, but this is EXACTLY what I am hoping > for with this activation plugin. Hoping to check this out later > tonight. > > On Jul 28, 4:56 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jul 28, 10:59 am, nod <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > > > Will we be seeing an option for what I will attempt to describe as: > > > "auto-start and run Firebug minimized for whitelist URLs"? > > > (Here I'm attempting to name/summarize the problem that so many people > > > are writing about regarding wanting Firebug to "just STAY on darnit" > > > for their whitelist so they never have to think about activation > > > again, just as they didn't have to in <=1.3. Also known as > > > "conflation of visibility and activation" and "have to reload page & > > > reproduce to catch logging" and a few other descriptions.) > > > Can you explain what you think "so many people" want? I can't figure > > it out. > > > How is "auto-start and run Firebug minimized for whitelist URLs" any > > different from "minimize"? I mean if you minimize, then the page is > > whitelisted and firebug is running. > > > Does anyone have a test case where Firebug 1.4 does not stay on for a > > page they have whitelisted? > > > The only thing I can guess that matches what you describe here is the > > following scenario: > > > 1. Open getfirebug.com > > 2. open firebug (UI is visible), > > 3. reload. Firebug is debugging the page. > > 4. New tab,http://groups.google.com/group/firebug > > 5. Don't open Firebug. Firebug is gray. > > 6. Switch back to the tab with getfirebug.com. Discover that all > > console logging and ajax traffic has been ignored while I read the > > newsgroup. > > > Is that the scenario? Other wise I still don't get what you are > > saying. > > > jjb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
