I was using the 2.0.7 but the beta version of Firefox. When I updated to FireFox beta 36 Firebug stopped working. I saw this was a chance to get it working and ensure that I tested the latest stuff before the other developers in the office got bitten by any issues.
Two quick things I see as massive steps back from our points of view. We are a heavily AJAX shop, so I am coming in from that perspective. This behavior may mimic the built in FirFox dev tools, but we did not use them for good reason. Formerly from the console, the request would expand and show the headers, params and nicely parsed and formatted JSON when available. There are several problems that I see with the new interface. - The viewing the request pops up in a window. The window goes to the top left monitor area, instead of staying where firebug is opened. Annoying. - I turned on the response body, but it will not retrieve the whole thing, only a part until I click to retrieve the rest. - Even after I retrieve it all, the JSON parsing window is gone, which means I have to copy it from the window into another editor and format there. The response no longer is nicely formatted either. The response body is big long string of params. When you are running online application with anywhere from 3 to 50 posting params this again is a PITA to read. Just those two general items made FireBug a MUST for our development shop. The Alpha for 3 is so far harder to use (in our case) than Chrome's dev tools. At least I do not have to request the rest of my data manually every time I make a query, after moving the pop up window back over to the proper monitor and sizing it so I can see more than a few lines. I find it disappointing that a decision was made to "merge" the two tools in FireFox and apparently the builtin tools take precedence. Firebug was far better almost across the board. Hears to hoping it can regain that former usefulness before version 3 is required by the general audience and not just those on beta tracks. I understand I am on beta and alpha tracks. I am not screaming, yet. A few months of not having a "useful" firebug might do it to me though. ;) But for now, mostly Chrome it is. On Monday, November 10, 2014 at 9:31:18 AM UTC-5, Jan Honza Odvarko wrote: > > http://bit.ly/1wKR16L > > Honza > -- 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/6ae16e75-4b05-4f7a-8a90-181428beed5d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
