Firebug 1.1 beta

[John J Barton]

Please try Firebug 1.1:
http://fireclipse.xucia.com/#Downloads

Firebug 1.1 is Joe Hewitt's Firebug 1.05 with my 'branches/eval'
additions and fixes combined with Max Stepanov's aptana additions and
fixes and community additions.

Release notes are here:
http://fbug.googlecode.com/svn/branches/firebug1.1/docs/ReleaseNotes_1.1.txt

Thanks again to Kris Zyp at Xucia for distributions.

[Nakul Aggarwal]

Big thanks Firebug team.

Nakul

[Richard Quadling]

Is this version going to be adopted as the official version upon
release? Or are there now 2+ development threads (Joe's and yours)?

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[BobH]

I have been using the 1.1 betas since the work on displaying frames.
Recently I started getting a considerable number of crashes of Firefox
and backed out most of the add-ons I had, including reverting to
Firebug 1.05. In limited use I did not get any crashes. With this
announcement I put up the new version of Firebug 1.1, and got a crash
in short order.

I have not recognized a pattern for what brings on the crashes, and I
have not seen anything so far that seemed helpful for diagnosing the
cause, other than the version of Firebug that I am using.

Sorry that the symptoms are not at all definitive but I thought what I
have seen was strong enough to past a flag in case anyone else sees
anything like it.

On Sep 12, 3:49 am, "Richard Quadling" <rquadl...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/09/2007, John J Barton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Please try Firebug 1.1:
> >http://fireclipse.xucia.com/#Downloads
>
> > Firebug 1.1 is Joe Hewitt's Firebug 1.05 with my 'branches/eval'
> > additions and fixes combined with Max Stepanov's aptana additions and
> > fixes and community additions.
>
> > Release notes are here:

> >http://fbug.googlecode.com/svn/branches/firebug1.1/docs/ReleaseNotes_...

[John J Barton]

Richard,
As far as I know branches/firebug1.1 combines the development efforts
on Firebug. I don't know how to make this version "official" but I'd
like to make it "useful".
John.

On Sep 12, 12:49 am, "Richard Quadling" <rquadl...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/09/2007, John J Barton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Please try Firebug 1.1:
> >http://fireclipse.xucia.com/#Downloads
>
> > Firebug 1.1 is Joe Hewitt's Firebug 1.05 with my 'branches/eval'
> > additions and fixes combined with Max Stepanov's aptana additions and
> > fixes and community additions.
>
> > Release notes are here:

> >http://fbug.googlecode.com/svn/branches/firebug1.1/docs/ReleaseNotes_...

[Michael Sync]

Hi John,

Thanks. I have sent a few questions to you. It would be great if you can answer me.
I have installed new version on my machine too. it doesn't crash but it doesn't work properly with multiple tabs.

Thanks,
Michael

http://michaelsync.net

[John J Barton]

First I have to say that most user don't find Firefox crashes when
using Firebug. In particular it does not happen for me routinely so I
have a hard time finding workarounds (or reporting the underlying bug
to Firefox). Firebug is 100% Javascript so we can't crash Firefox on
purpose only fall into holes already there.

Since 2.0.0.6, the dojo team says Firefox on OSX crashes when using
Firebug. Since I don't use OSX and they don't have Talkback installed
(or maybe it does not work on OSX), we have made no progress.

One concrete thing everyone can do is activate Talkback and put
"fireclipse 1.1.0b1" (or whatever version) in the comment if you
crash. That will help build up a list of stack traces. (See
http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/search/start.jsp and search for
comments with the word fireclipse; warning talkback takes minutes).
Over the past the traces point to four categories:
-- jsds_NotifyPendingDeadScripts. Consistent problem, but I think
related to a GC bug in Firefox.
-- GC very hard to deal with.
-- nsInspectorCSSUtils::GetRuleNodeForContent DOMUtils bug worked
around in FB1.1
-- others. seemingly random

John.