Well, I am glad to see that it is not just me that is frustrated on this issue. I thought I was being difficult. The comparison of 1.3 to XP and 1.4 to Vista actually went through my mind too :) even though I used FB mostly on OSX.
Please read comments: On Aug 14, 4:58 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 14, 12:42 pm, nroussi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have been using Firebug for a very long time and this version forced > > me to install Opera with dragonfly. I design and develop pages and I > > We would be interested in your experience, especially if you see > things you would like in Firebug. > I would like to be able to do what I could do in 1.3. Disable FB for gmail lets say in one tab and enable it for the sites that I am working on in another tab. > > want to be able to disable it for specific sites like gmail and also > > enable it for specific sites (like the ones I am working on). This > > always on/always off is a really bad idea. If it was done to save > > I don't know what you are saying here. What is "always on/always off"? > Such a thing wasn't done. So its not a bad idea, its just somehow your > Firebug is broken or its not working how you expect. > Well I installed from scratch and using OSX with FF3.5. When I click on the bug icon and it opens up, it stays on for all sites. If I click off, it is still on when the page is refreshed > > memory then I guess the developers of Firebug forgot who their target > > audience is. > > I don't think so. What makes you say that? > I had read somewhere on a forum posting that the reason the feature of a per site on or off was removed to save memory and memory should not be an issue. > > Dont get me wrong, I appreciate a free product and I > > appreciate the work behind firebug. It is a shame though to not be > > able to use it anymore. > > Let us know if you want help to fix your Firebug. > > > > > If there is anyone that installed firebug 1.3 on Firefox 3.5 please > > let me know as I dont want to use Opera. > > > Regards > > > On Aug 14, 10:07 am, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 14, 2:11 am, dan_m2k <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'd agree. Though the latest build has solved a lot of the problems > > > > that I've found of late, the lagest Firebug does feel like it's fallen > > > > backwards - the activation model being one of the main bugbares. > > > > > The firebug icon (colored/greyed out) is counter intuitive as it often > > > > fails to respond to the 'enable all panels' or 'no panels' options - > > > > therfore giving no meaningful feedback, and likewise there is no > > > > If you can help us reproduce this we can fix it. > > > > > intuitive way to find out you've accidentally enabled for everything, > > > > until, say, you find that gMail has issues loading as it's going thru > > > > Firebug. > > > > Any suggestions? I'm not sure what you mean by "accidentally". Do you > > > mean "I set On for All Web Page" then forgot I had set it because the > > > UI does not change when this option is set? > > > > > The various other issues relating to console logging being hit and > > > > miss, the inspector failing to highlight the selected node/failing to > > > > keep it selected, and the net tab, make the end user experience very > > > > frustraiting. > > > > Of course we can't fix these problems. > > > > > A side note to other users - I did have some performance improvements/ > > > > less glitches by completely removing Firefox and all application > > > > support, library folders and so-forth from my Mac before doing a > > > > reinstall of FF and Firebug. YMMV. > > > > I strongly discourage users from uninstalling Firefox to fix Firebug > > > problems, it almost never works. The reason is simple: the problems > > > are almost always in the Firefox configuration settings ('profile') > > > and uninstalling or reinstalling does not change these settings. > > > > The most effective way to reset your browser is to create a new > > > Firefox profile. > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
