Executino tracing - there used to be a tool, was it Fireflow or Firetrace? - which allowed you to created a trace of the execution of code on a web page.

[BobN]

I just checked, it was Fireflow.

You could use Fireflow to trace function calls. It no longer works with current releases.

Has Firebug added a trace facility? If so, how do you access it? If not, are there any add-ons or such available?

BobN

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

Such feature is available in Firefox 40 developer tools (the current release channel), but has been removed in 42 since the implementation was quite poor (lack of features, bad performance)

1) Set devtools.debugger.tracer to true
2) Go to the Debugger panel, you should see Tracer side panel on the left
3) Click "Click to start tracking" button in the Debugger panel toolbar
4) Perform an action on the page and click that button again
5) Check out content of the Traces panel

You can also see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176981

Honza

[BobN]

So I take that as a NO - there is no trace tool available - which won't be pulled in probably 18 or 20 hours when Firefox ratchets up to version 42.  I still cannot see any valid reasons that it blew through so many version numbers in such a short time.

As I was saying - I will take that as "No, there is no available, viable, trace tool."

What a sad comment on the state of software development in the PC world and the lack of tools which we obsolete, old decrepit and useless mainframe programmers have come to expect since the 1980s.

Oh, yes - does anyone know if there is an execution trace program, add-on, whatever, for any of the other browsers?