That works, thank you! Honestly, in all the time I've used Firebug I never noticed that button!
I used the minimise button and just ignored the two next to it, because I extrapolated my experience with Windows window buttons to Firebug and assumed the other two would maximise or "close" Firebug. I didn't want to do that, so I ignored the buttons. So I think the UI is a bit misleading or rather, not as discoverable as it could be. Now, you may say I'm an idiot for not noticing it, and you may well be right :), but I'm sure I'm not the only idiot out there. I just asked two colleagues who also use Firebug and they didn't notice it either. The GMail support answer (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py? hl=en-GB&ctx=mail&answer=77355) doesn't mention it, so maybe even the GMail developers didn't notice it. I think it would really improve the usability of Firebug if you added a "Deactivate Firebug for this web site" menu option to the main ("bug icon") menu. Evgeny On Jul 15, 10:33 am, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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.
