I have posted over 10 tickets to the Bugzilla system with much success at getting resolution as i don't post anymore unless i have a test case. However, all of the most serious bugs I face on a daily basis i can't get resolution for because i can't come up with a test case. With most of issues, i am debugging my fairly complicated webapps and then things just stop working. It is impossible to know exactly what caused it, so a test case is hard to make.
For a complicated app, my companies apps all have many iframes. Most iframes have dojo in them, and dozens of other scripts. There are many dom transformations and xhr requests happening all the time. WHen things go wrong with these kinds of apps, it is hard to simulate issues with simple test cases. It's hard just to reproduce them, in general, as i don't noticed things are broken until i need them. So, i thought i'd list all these bugs that i encounter on a daily basis. Most of them have been happening to me since I started using Firebug (1.2 or 1.3). What i am hoping is that maybe the Firebug developers could take the opposite approach with these bugs. Instead of requiring a simple test case, maybe they could test against a complicated app until they can reproduce some of them. If not, maybe others will post to this with experiences with these bugs. 1. 'console is not defined' - this will start happening at random times. browser must be restarted 2. 'net panel stops working' - net panel will stop showing any requests - browser must be restarted 3. console stops working - console stops showing any logging 4. script panel is empty - script panel will not have a script list - browser must be restarted 5. clicking line number does not add breakpoint - you click on a line number and it does not look like it added a breakpoint, even though it does. the breakpoint shows up only after you click the Watch tab 6. lockup - browser locks up and gets unresponse script errors inside firebugs code. must do force shutdown on browser. 7. console shows errors from non-activated pages in other tabs. - for example, i might have Hotmail opened in a different tab, and i will any errors from it in my tab. -- 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.
