On Aug 18, 9:11 pm, Scott Shumaker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've installed the latest firebug (1.5a21). I think I finally
> understand it's behavior, now that the annotation bug is fixed. But
> the UI is really weird.
>
> First off, you have to make sure that NEITHER 'on for all webpages'
> NOR 'off for all webpages' is checked. Yes, checking one unchecks the
> other, but you can uncheck both, too.
Yes, uncheck both.
>
> Secondly, you'll notice that if you click the little bug in the lower
> right hand corner of the status bur when it's greyed out, will turn it
> on and expand the firebug window. However, clicking the bug again
> will only minimize it, not turn it off. Yes, it's a bad design
> practice. But bear with me.
Of course I don't agree. Because the common use model, as has been
repeated over and over and over again here, is to open firebug, then
repeat cycles of minimize, open, minimize, open. This pattern has
been always been true of Firebug and across different kinds of users.
That is why the Status bar icon works the way it does. If it activated
firebug on one click, then deactivated on the next click, that would
wire the uncommon case to the button.
I agree that this behavior is slightly unexpected, but once you try
it, I guess you may agree that it does make sense.
>
> When you click the bug, you've enabled firebug for that domain, as far
> as I can tell. If you want to turn it off, you need to click the
> little 'off' button you can see once it's expanded.
Yes, by design. That way you have to really want to turn Firebug off,
not accidentally by clicking the status bar icon a second time.
(This is the root of many discussions on this group because unknown to
us some users operate like this:
Status bar On, Minimize icon [_], statusbar open, Minimize [_], ...
In 1.4 we changed these icons and moved the minimize to the left two
places, and to add insult to the damage, we put the Off button in the
position of the old minimize. These users were (are) quite unhappy
because they use this sequence a lot and find that they hit Off by
accident).
>
> One additional weirdness - if you change tabs, firebug stays open, but
> it's still really attached to the first tab. This can often confuse
> you into thinking you're debugging some other tab, but you're not.
This is incorrect behavior. It does not happen for us. Unfortunately
the only way we have of resolving this is to ask for a test case, ask
you to trace your install, or ask you to install Firebug in a new
Firefox profile (which will fix your problem).
jjb...
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