I've been through a dozen of these posts about 1.4's UX (wherein I learned that the developer takes quite an attitude toward "complainers," "whiners," and layabout do-no-gooders, so I'll expect a witty retort that the developer's been through millions of them). I wholeheartedly agree with the points above. I'll make a bullet list of wishes, since I want you to know I take this seriously and I'm not a "whiner". Also I hope to be listened to. I generally love Firebug and have written emails complimenting it, and I have thanked the devs for their hard work and a great useful tool. So here we go:
- Lose the "on/off" functionality. *Since this is an add-on* the close button shouldn't "quit", or change settings in the background, etc etc. Want to quit Firebug? Tools->Add-ons->Disable. - Go back to the old "visible/invisible paradigm" rather than the new "off/minimize" paradigm. Call what you now consider the "Minimize" button's functionality the "Close" button. The "minimize" feature is superfluous if the "close" button does what any other addon's "close" button does, which is disappear (but continue to work for us when we need it in a few minutes.) - Firebug should run all panels, by default, for any domain, on any web page, on any tab. We can always set the preferences to "disable for all pages" or "enable for all pages" - The Net tab should show me all the requests that have been going on before I displayed firebug, that means what happened while minimized, without refreshing the page. I thought this was the way it worked before which is why I'm surprised we need to refresh now. Did it not work that way before? Regardless, Firebug should always have been paying attention. The resources are minimal to do this and un- streamlining the add-on to gain 20K of resources is a poor trade. - You seem to be convinced that people need to get used to new button placement even if they were poorly placed to begin with. You can categorize the interface as mimicking a standalone application (minimize restore and close, _ [] X), but you can also categorize this as an addon with its own rules as before - Plus if you keep moving buttons around and you piss off your current users simply to gain (millions of brand new???) users. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
