Google says "Firebug can make Gmail slow"

[Driven]

I found this earlier this morning when I logged into gmail -
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77355

I just thought you guys might like to know.

TB

[John J Barton]

Yes, we saw this, too bad the information is not accurate. John.

[kirov]

Perhaps gmail does not want you to know what they are sending back and
forth :-)
Just kidding, but the link provides no benchmarking and no reasoning.
Aside from that, firebug surely brings some overhead, so you just
don't have to have it enabled unless you use it...

On Oct 30, 12:28 pm, John J Barton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com>
wrote:

[arobinson74]

I cannot say why that it does slow down, but it does. Disabling
firebug for gmail significantly speeds it up.

[mrbene]

I expect that they meant to say "Because of the large number of
transactions between the Gmail web app and the Gmail servers at
mail.google.com, showing XMLHttpRequests and performance data will
introduce a noticeable performance impact."

Although is the question does remain - what amount of delay can
Firebug introduce on HTTP transactions?

On Oct 30, 7:06 am, Driven <tbril...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found this earlier this morning when I logged into gmail -https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77355

[Mark Kahn]

Its not that firebug makes the transactions slow its that google does
around one transaction per second and firebug logs every single one of
those. After a few hours or days firefox as a whole has slowed to a
crawl because firebug is eating 1gb of ram.

-mark

Sent from my iPod Touch

[Julien Wajsberg]

I think the problem is also that Firebug is decreasing JavaScript performance in the browser. And Gmail uses a lot of this :)

[Andy]

In addition, following google's recommended action of disabling
FireBug (1.0.5) causes a hang & crash in FireFox 2.0.0.8 whenever one
navigates away from the gmail application, on my machine.

Re-enabling firebug allowed me to resume normal work.

--andy

On Oct 30, 9:06 am, Driven <tbril...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found this earlier this morning when I logged into gmail -https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77355

[Kjell Bublitz]

I just got the notice for the first time today. I am on a Mac with FF
v2.0.0.9 and FB 1.05 - i have not noticed any changes yet, however
disabling did not crash or anything. But i guess i simply belong to
"disabling helps everybody but mac users"-group. I also do not
understand why they care to post this info. I mean.. Firebug ain't
really the number one extension among Gmail or Firefox users, is it?
:-)

--kjell

PS: i use the new IMAP feature with GMail so i dont care how slow
their interface is anyways ^_^

[Sam]

Interesting. I had the same problem and finally tracked it down to
Firebug. Does anyone have any idea why that is happening?

Peace,
-Sam

On Nov 1, 8:23 pm, Andy <pbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In addition, following google's recommended action of disabling
> FireBug (1.0.5) causes a hang & crash in FireFox 2.0.0.8 whenever one

> navigates away from thegmailapplication, on my machine.

>
> Re-enabling firebug allowed me to resume normal work.
>
> --andy
>
> On Oct 30, 9:06 am, Driven <tbril...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> > I found this earlier this morning when I logged intogmail-https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77355