On Jul 15, 4:38 pm, Evgeny Potashnik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
You understood our UI but you chose to ignore the close button when you wanted to close Firebug on GMail. Perhaps you can see that this makes it difficult for us to help you. > > 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 The GMail information is two years old. I don't understand why you blame Firebug if Google does not update their page. Notice how you got here: you saw the message on Google's page, read their information, and then you were confused and posted here. If Google's page had said "Push the 'disable Firebug for this site' button in the upper right corner of Firebug", then you would know exactly what to do. I wish GMail would fix their page and I've sent requests to that effect without success. > usability of Firebug if you added a "Deactivate Firebug for this web > site" menu option to the main ("bug icon") menu. We already have a button for this. I'm sorry you did not know about it until now. jjb > > 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.
