Thanks to everyone for the encouragement. It's really too bad there is nothing we can do but try to remain calm while we get bad press. The startup improvements are very difficult and they must wait for more pressing work to be completed.
jjb On Apr 6, 1:18 am, JohnTeee <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't be angry... > When debugging,WHO CARES THE STARTUP TIME? > No matter whatever Mozilla says,Firebug is the best developer in > Firefox. > Don't pay any time about the improper nonsense,and we do need it. > It's the best:) > > On 4月4日, 下午11時35分, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Apr 4, 5:45 am, cheekybuddha <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > HI FWG members, > > > > Saw this thread > > > (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/firebug-working-group/76pFFo68S2Q/lM3... > > > ). I'm posting here because I'm not a member fo FWG. > > > I wish your article title had been used in the addons.mozilla.org > > page. If that page had said Firebug added 900ms to Firefox startup, > > I'd have no problem with it. > > > > I had seen mention of this already > > > here:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/03/mozilla_cracks_down_on_add_on... > > > > If you read the comments of that article most people realise that a > > > performance hit from Firebug is to be expected, let alone worried about, > > > and > > > startup time is of little consequence when using debug tools. > > > The reason I have a strong reaction to the page is that we invested a > > really large chunk of time, both as developers and as a community of > > users and testers, to create and improve ways to prevent Firebug from > > slowing down Firefox. We did not focus on startup time because it does > > not matter. Now AMO creates a page about startup time that blames us > > for "slow Firefox to a crawl and make it difficult to use for regular > > web browsing." which has nothing at all to do with the startup time > > they measure. > > > jjb > > > > Regards, > > > > d -- 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.
