On Jul 14, 5:22 pm, Evgeny Potashnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, this is my first post to the group. I've been using
> Firebug for a while and it's an absolutely awesome addon - I don't
> know how people did web development before it. :)
>
> The one thing that's a constant annoyance, though, is GMail. GMail
> warns that Firebug makes it slow and, sure enough, it does. There are
> instructions on how to disable it, but that disables it for all sites.
> I'm often switching between my GMail account in one tab and a website
> I'm developing in another tab, so I don't want to keep disabling and
> re-enabling it all the time. I want Firebug to be completely off for
> GMail, while still working as normal for everything else.

Open the Gmail tab, open firebug on the Gmail tab, press the red
button in the right most corner, like an off button, [(|)].
Reload gmail.

I wish gmail would fix their site.

>
> Yes, I've searched for this. There are plenty of long threads, most of
> them old, but none of them provide a clear answer. (Well, at least not
> that I could easily find.) I remember old version of Firebug (years
> ago) used to allow me to disable it for specific sites and as far as I
> remember that used to work OK for GMail (that is, GMail wasn't
> noticeably slow). Please, could you provide some kind of fix for this.
> Even if you have to add a specific hack just for GMail, I don't care -
> I'd be fine with a checkbox that says "Make GMail work fast" (checked
> by default) :).

Firebug is off by default so no such button is needed.

If you still have problems, try Firebug > Firebug Icon menu > Options
> Reset All.  That will clear all of the options in case you did
something you forgot you did.

jjb

>
> Evgeny

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