Comments on: Firebug bugs vs Firefox bugs

By: johnjbarton

johnjbarton — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:11:23 +0000

Please post bug report to http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/list or the newgroup, http://groups.google.com/group/firebug. We’ll tell you to contact Firefox, but may be we can help a little.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:05:01 +0000

Hi,
Couldn’t find an email to report bugs to so excuse me for posting here. My browser crashes with a segfault every time I visit http://www.cio.com

I’m using Firefox 3.0.10 on Ubuntu (9.04). Firebug extension is version 1.3.3. With the Firebug extension disabled, things seem to be OK.

With Firebug enabled, clearing the cache also seems to work, but only for a few page reloads. After a while it will start crashing again. Sudden and brutal crashes.

Hope this finds the right audience, and hope the feedback helps.

By: Craig Buchan

Craig Buchan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:11:58 +0000

I have to hand it to you guys, I love firebug and if it were not for your hard work my web development would be an absolute nightmare! Since I got Firebug I binned dreamweaver completely!

Keep up the top work!

By: James Dempster

James Dempster — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:45:49 +0000

Wow sounds like to really difficult issues to work with.
Appreciate all the hard work you guys put into this!

By: johnjbarton

johnjbarton — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:39:07 +0000

@shaver: Firefox can remain usable on its own code base because developers test Firefox as they commit code to it. If they also tested Firebug then of course we would be able to keep up. That is what we are working towards.

I don’t understand how we could change Firebug in the way you suggest. We can’t develop code for APIs that don’t exist, we have a hard enough time with those that do! We have submitted bugs requesting changes to error handling (435025), loading (342715), caching (484710), and javascript debugging (449452). What else can we do?

By: johnjbarton

johnjbarton — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:13:20 +0000

Boris, all of the FBTests require Firebug (I’m not sure about the per se part . There is a quick outline of how they work linked in the blog post under Firebug Test System. The system that can be launched from the FF command line and emit results to the OS stdout (window.dump()). If this turns out to be a bad match for Firefox testing, I think we will be able to pick a few key tests and make them mochitests.

By: ~robcee/ » Blog Archive » Firebug and 3.5 compatibility

~robcee/ » Blog Archive » Firebug and 3.5 compatibility — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:58:58 +0000

[...] had getting Firebug working with Firefox 3.5 over the last couple of months in a separate blog post on the [...]

By: johnjbarton

johnjbarton — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:10:01 +0000

Eventually we hope to have a firebug test suite as part of the unit tests for Firefox. But we need to have some experience with doing our tests routinely before we inflict them on the Firefox committers .

By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:05:10 +0000

Do those tests depend on Firebug per se being installed? Or could they be turned into mochitests, etc, and run on tbox?