A lot of people above are complaining about usability issues. But personally I don't have a usability issue, I have a browser crashing issue. When I open certain sites like Gmail and Meebo, Firefox slows to a crawl and crashes.
The "ON/OFF for all web pages" is just too confusing for me. When doing web development, I set it to the ON mode so Firebug doesn't close on me each time I hit refresh. But doing so prevents me from checking email on Gmail when I'm developing. I don't even see the OFF button when I open Gmail in 1.5 alpha. The only way I can turn it off for Gmail is to right click the bug, wait 1 minute as my browser is half frozen, then finally choose "OFF for all web pages". So this cycles back and forth between Gmailing and developing. ++++++SOLUTION++++++: 1) clicking bug icon in lower right corner opens firebug permanently for this tab. So if I refresh in this tab, the Firebug is still open and console is still reporting JS errors. 2) clicking bug icon will not affect any other of your tabs. 3) once current tab is closed, firebug no longer runs on this site until you reopen firebug. ++++++ OR SOLUTION #2 +++++ Revert to old Firebug style: give me an option to turn on Firebug permanently for localhost, Youtube, ... whatever. On Aug 17, 3:40 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 17, 2:59 pm, Gidgidonihah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > That would just cause a different set of people to complain. > > > So our complaints are less valid because you would have to change it > > again? :p > > No, your complaints are valid and understandable. As would the > complaints of folks who like it the way it is. > > > I agree with DucDigital. Have a poll. Or bloat it up a bit and give us > > an option of having the 1.3 order. > > I am looking into user-feedback polls built into the update > mechanism. > > > > > The 1.3 UI is much more inline with the Firefox UI to have the red x > > in the top right to minimize firefox. More so than a down arrow 3rd > > from the right. > > ? What down arrow? > > So what operation do you say that Firefox does when you click the red > X on a web page tab? Or the red X in the upper corner of a Firefox OS > window? > > > Close a tab: X. Close the sidebar: X Close firebug: down arrow. > > Cause Firefox to no long use resources for a tab: X. Cause Firebug to > no longer user resources for a page: off button. > > (What down arrow are you talking about?) > > > Now you might argue that it's inline with the windows UI (min) (max) > > (close). I give you that, but I see it differently. > > I close firebug. I don't turn it off. Turning it off is something I'd > > rarely do, but I close it all the time. So really it comes down to a > > difference in how you see the model. > > If this simply isn't something that's going to come back, I wonder how > > long before somebody releases that extension that restores it to the > > 1.3 UI. > > This is easy to do. > > > > > > Then use the statusbar icon to minimize. > > > That's just as bad as using the down arrow. Firebugs status icon can > > change places depending on what other extensions you have installed. > > Sure it's the same thing you pressed to open, but finding the, say > > 4th, icon from the right, when you have firebug open, just isn't very > > usable. > > Thanks for your observation. This is the first I've heard of this as a > problem. > > > A close button in the top right (as it was in 1.3) would be most > > consistent with the Fx UI. > > Well, for what its worth, its Fx UI people who convinced me that the > 1.4 order made the most sense. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
