I've just followed your instructions regarding installing Firebug 1.5a21 and resetting options.
It *may* have worked, you know. However: I set 'off for all pages', right? Then I go to the page I'm developing in a tab, enable all panels - alongside X number of non-work related tabs. Then I'll switch to another tab e.g. gmail and there Firebug is, still, enabled for the second tab where I didn't enable it for. Urm....? On Aug 17, 5:07 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 17, 7:28 am, dan_m2k <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm interested by johnjbarton's reponses. > > > I share the frustration shared by, nroussi, amongst others. > > And I am also very frustrated by the current situation. We have a > version of Firebug with a bug we cannot fix but everyone thinks the > problem is a Firebug design problem. > > > > > I feel that the take-away for this is that the activation model > > clearly doesn't meet the majority of user's expectations in how it > > works, in that a lot of users (myself included) feels that it doesn't. > > I don't take that away at all. So far all I am hearing is that the > activation fails to work correctly. Changing the model won't help > because there is a bug in Firefox that prevents the user from getting > the correct result no matter what the model says. > > I'm going to say the same thing here five differ ways: > > Firebug 1.4 uses page annotation to store activations. > Firefox 3.* has a bug in page annotations, it forgets some. > Consequently Firebug 1.4 activation fails for some people all of the > time. > Firebug 1.5a21 stores page annotations in text files: it should work > all of the time. > > > It isn't a bug as such, it seems to be a flaw in the usability in the > > latest "Vista" release of Firebug. My rationale for this is that > > seasoned Firebug users simply don't get how it works. I'm still at a > > loss how to enable this for some sites and not others. > > Here's my theory: > > The reason the activation fails for you has not a single thing to do > with usability, design, model, Vista, rationale, seasoned, user- > understanding or any of this other stuff. > > The reason the activation fails for you is simple: a software bug. > > You can easily prove my theory wrong: install Firebug 1.5a21, reset > the Firebug options (eg by Firebug Icon Menu > Options > Reset > Options). Then try activating a page (open Firebug on that page) or > deactivating on (Off button for that page). > > > As per john's specific comments -- my suggestion would be to go back > > to an activation model that works in way that users understand. > > First convince me that you've tried our activation solution. I think > you have been suffering from the page annotation bug. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
