Comments on: Firebug Feature? Tagged ‘firebugged’

By: Albert

Albert — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:30:18 +0000

A little, perhaps offtopic, proposal for changing the user experience. Personally, I think the users problem is in the difference between a global enable/disable, and a per-site enable/disable. I do not know if there are two ‘camps’, one that always wants Firebug turned on or off, and another that wants the per-site settings. But you pointed out that performance is unacceptable when turning Firebug panels on permanently.

So, my proposal is: remove the global enable/disable switch. This would clear up the dropdown in Firebugs tabs – you might get away with removing the dropdown fully, and replace it with a permanent ‘enabled for this site’ checkbox which is much more discoverable.

This would also clean the site list: it would become a whitelist, no need to add disabled sites when there’s no global enable.

I know this is a change that will remove behavior some people might rely on, but I believe its for the better. Love to hear comments!

By: Glen

Glen — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:42:06 +0000

Wouldn’t SQLite be faster than a plain text file? At least with SQLite the URLs could be indexed.

By: BrianL

BrianL — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:40:54 +0000

I haven’t read the other comments, but I like the idea of being able to type “firebugged” in my address bar. Keep up the great work John!

By: jerone

jerone — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:13:52 +0000

I’m a very big fan of Firebug. Beside Firebug I’m also a big user of Foxmarks.
And now comes the problem, every time I change a tag, Foxmarks registers this and what to synchronize. So every time I open Firebug you put a new tag there and Foxmarks gets busy.
I see this as a big disadvantage, which leads to a lot off busy servers at Foxmarks.
I vote for another solution.

By: John Silvestri

John Silvestri — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:47:08 +0000

P.S. Make that ‘site-specific’ prefs.
(e.g. browser.zoom.siteSpecific)

By: John Silvestri

John Silvestri — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:46:04 +0000

I use Firebug…but I don’t use bookmarks.

I stopped using bookmarks many years ago, and strictly use the Awesomebar to get where I’m trying to go. (Before it’s existence, I used to just type URL fragments…now life is easier.)

I’d second the recommendation of using content-specific prefs – that’s kind of what they were designed for, and are far less intrusive.

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:32:56 +0000

Doesn’t Firebug already remember which pages it’s open on, in order to show itself when a tab is selected (and list the active pages in the status bar tooltip)?

By: Jigar Shah

Jigar Shah — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:15:50 +0000

I have another suggestion. What if we enable only when FB panel / window is open ? So if you want to do some resource hungry operation open firebug panel. Here you don’t have to remember urls

By: FP

FP — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:51:02 +0000

You could also try using content prefs:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_content_preferences