Hmm... even after googling the phrase "blocking issue" I'm still not exactly sure what it means... if I were part of the Firebug development team, I guess it would mean not going forward with a new version/release until that bug were fixed (?). But since I'm not part of that team... does it mean "is this an issue that prevents you from using Firebug on your project" or something like that?
Anyway, no, it doesn't stop me from using Firebug. Perhaps (at the risk of trying everyone's patience) I can describe what I'm trying to do... I'm developing some web pages with a large number of images on each page. I'm working on some PHP + JavaScript to pre-load (download to the browser cache) some of the images that will likely be called on subsequent similar pages that the user is likely to navigate to, which involves making predictive guesses. I keep fiddling with the pre-loading code and then reloading the browser, over and over, and each time I need to see which images do or do not get downloaded from my development server to the browser. There's only a few images I actually care about on each page, but they tend to get buried in the long list of hundreds of irrelevant images. It really slows me down to have to hunt through the list each time I make a code change and refresh the browser. The important/relevant images have two distinctive features: their filenames always contain two consecutive numerals, and they're the largest (filesize) images in the list. I don't really care whether I'm observing them as they actually enter the cache, or observing them simply downloading (after I flush and disable the cache) -- that doesn't matter -- I just need to know whether they were called from the server, or not, each time. I've tried using Firebug's Net panel, and various Firefox extensions like Live HTTP Headers, HttpFox, CacheViewer, and similar, to generate a list of currently downloaded images. They're all very awkward to use in this way, for various reasons, and I've been unable to find anything that can show me a concise view of only what I want to see. So far the best (strangely enough) has been the Network tab in IE's built-in Developer tools, but that's not great either, plus it's awkward because I run IE/Win7 within a VM on my Mac. I'm surprised there isn't some tool (or maybe there is?) that can filter out (hide from the list) everything that's loading into the browser, except for what matches a regular expression. That's why I was playing with the regexp search in Firebug's Net panel... but even if it worked, it looks like it would at best only *highlight* items in the list (which I'd still have to scroll down each time to find), not actually filter out everything else as I'd prefer. Sorry for the lengthy description. Any suggestions would be very welcome. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/firebug/CAMoMLKjBsCH%3DG6h64d%2BJ_1og%3Dunm_6daphmwsS2V4sjvaNA55Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
