Firebug 1.7.3 + Firebug 1.8b4

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

http://blog.getfirebug.com/2011/06/20/firebug-1-7-3-firebug-1-8b4/

Includes patch for a security issue, update is recommended.

Honza

[Rusty Wright]

It looks like you're calling this release "Firebug 1.7.3 + Firebug
1.8b4", which, to me at least, implies that this release is a
combination of Firebug 1.7.3 *and* Firebug 1.8b4. If it were me, I'd
change the release name/title on the blog and getfirebig.com to

Firebug 1.7.3, Firebug 1.8b4

The comma has a different interpretation than the plus sign.

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

OK, done (can take some time to go through caches)
Honza

[Richard]

Firebug 1.7.3 is incompatible with Firefox 5? (At least according to
the add-ons manager.)

Is there a non-beta version which is compatible?

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

On Jun 22, 2:38 pm, Richard <Richard.Deem...@arcomit.co.uk> wrote:
> Firebug 1.7.3 is incompatible with Firefox 5? (At least according to
> the add-ons manager.)
>
> Is there a non-beta version which is compatible?

Firebug 1.7.3 *is* compatible with Firefox 5

Just go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/ and
download.

What exactly you did to get the message (what configuration)?

It looks like a problem on addons.mozilla.org...

Honza

[Richard]

I just upgraded from Firefox 4.01 to 5.0 (from Help -> About).

I already had Firebug 1.7.3 installed. The upgrade told me it was not
compatible with v5. The Add-ons Manager also says it's not compatible.

Windows 7 x64
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0

http://postimage.org/image/2igmgeo1w/

Let me know if you need any other information.

[Richard]

I've just restarted Firefox again, and now it's showing as compatible.
Weird!

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

On Jun 22, 6:46 pm, Richard <Richard.Deem...@arcomit.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just restarted Firefox again, and now it's showing as compatible.
> Weird!

Not weird, I think I fixed the problem.
(just wanted to ask you to try again).

Thanks for the help!
Honza

[John J Barton]

On Jun 25, 7:50 am, Hancoque <hanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There seems to be a memory leak in Firebug 1.8.0b4. I can reproduce
> this on Windows XP and Windows 7 (different computers) with Firefox
> 5.0 with about 60 tabs open (all different web sites) and having
> Firebug installed as the only extension. about:memory reports 200-300
> MiB more memory usage after reloading all tabs or switching to and
> back from private browsing mode (each time). Going back to Firebug
> 1.7.3 solves the issue.

Unfortunately there is no practical way to make use of this kind of
report. If you really believe this is a reproducible memory issue you
can search for the change that introduced the problem by using the
subversion repository and testing various revisions of firebug/
branches/firebug1.8 to isolate the change. However, 1.8 has lots of
infrastructure changes and some of the intermediate revisions don't
work.

jjb

[John J Barton]

On Jun 25, 7:50 am, Hancoque <hanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There seems to be a memory leak in Firebug 1.8.0b4. I can reproduce
> this on Windows XP and Windows 7 (different computers) with Firefox
> 5.0 with about 60 tabs open (all different web sites) and having
> Firebug installed as the only extension. about:memory reports 200-300
> MiB more memory usage after reloading all tabs or switching to and
> back from private browsing mode (each time). Going back to Firebug
> 1.7.3 solves the issue.

Unfortunately there is no practical way to make use of this kind of
report. If you really believe this is a reproducible memory issue you
can search for the change that introduced the problem by using the
subversion repository and testing various revisions of firebug/
branches/firebug1.8 to isolate the change. However, 1.8 has lots of
infrastructure changes and some of the intermediate revisions don't
work.

jjb

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> On Jun 20, 8:29 pm, Jan Honza Odvarko <odva...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[Jan Honza Odvarko]

On Jun 25, 4:50 pm, Hancoque <hanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There seems to be a memory leak in Firebug 1.8.0b4. I can reproduce
> this on Windows XP and Windows 7 (different computers) with Firefox
> 5.0 with about 60 tabs open (all different web sites) and having
> Firebug installed as the only extension. about:memory reports 200-300
> MiB more memory usage after reloading all tabs or switching to and
> back from private browsing mode (each time).

Do you have Firebug even enabled for any of the opened tabs?
Do you have Console, Script or Net panel enabled?

Honza

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

> about:memory reports 200-300
> MiB more memory usage after reloading all tabs

reloading all tabs means executing "Reload All Tabs" from the tab-bar
context menu?

> or switching to and
> back from private browsing mode (each time).

how exactly do you switch the privacy mode? Does it include browser
restart?

Honza


On Jun 25, 8:42 pm, Hancoque <hanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Firebug is closed for all tabs (gray icon) and all panels that can be
> disabled are disabled.

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

On Jun 26, 4:40 pm, Hancoque <hanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tested previous versions of Firebug 1.8 and found out that the
> last version without a leak is 1.8a2. Firebug 1.8a3 is the first
> version where the leak occurs.
This is great help!

I have attached a test build of upcoming 1.8b5 to this bug:
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=4558#c8

Could you please test also this version?

Honza

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

On Jun 26, 11:20 pm, Hancoque <hanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, unfortunately it doesn't fix the issue.
I created another test build available here:
http://www.softwareishard.com/temp/firebug-1.8.0b4.memory1.xpi
Could you please test it?

If it still doesn't help, the most effective next step is to put
together a test case that would allow us to reproduce your scenario on
our machines.

The best would be probably to to use directly your profile, but not
sure if it's feasible for you (the profile could contains sensitive
information).

The other option could be to get at least the list of open tabs,
perhaps the leak comes from a specific page. The list is stored in
sessionstore.js (within your profile), but again there are cookies so,
could be a problem for you.

Or you could try to use directly SVN revisions. There is 36 commits
between Firebug 1.8b2 and b3 (Firebug is using SVN). You could find
out, which one is making the difference (you need 4-5 tests to find
out the right revision if you bisect in half).

I am happy to assist if you need help how to download the source and
install (it's very easy)!

Honza

[John J Barton]

I just stumbled upon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666059

There we read:
"Currently we use disk cache for private browsing too and we delete
the whole cache when leaving private browsing mode. "
I wonder if Firebug's use of the cache has some problem with the
delete part.

jjb

On Jun 25, 12:16 pm, Hancoque <hanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > reloading all tabs means executing "Reload All Tabs" from the tab-bar
> > context menu?
>

> Yes.

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> > how exactly do you switch the privacy mode? Does it include browser
> > restart?
>

> I click on the orange Firefox button and choose "Startprivate
> browsing". After that I switch back the same way. So the browser isn't
> closed/restarted.

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> On Jun 25, 8:49 pm, Jan Honza Odvarko <odva...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > about:memory reports 200-300
> > > MiB more memory usage after reloading all tabs
>
> > reloading all tabs means executing "Reload All Tabs" from the tab-bar
> > context menu?
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> > >  or switching to and

> > > back fromprivatebrowsing mode (each time).

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> > how exactly do you switch the privacy mode? Does it include browser
> > restart?
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> > Honza
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> > On Jun 25, 8:42 pm, Hancoque <hanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Firebug is closed for all tabs (gray icon) and all panels that can be
> > > disabled are disabled.
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> > > On Jun 25, 8:29 pm, Jan Honza Odvarko <odva...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Jun 25, 4:50 pm, Hancoque <hanco...@gmail.com> wrote:> There seems to be a memory leak in Firebug 1.8.0b4. I can reproduce
> > > > > this on Windows XP and Windows 7 (different computers) with Firefox
> > > > > 5.0 with about 60 tabs open (all different web sites) and having
> > > > > Firebug installed as the only extension. about:memory reports 200-300
> > > > > MiB more memory usage after reloading all tabs or switching to and

> > > > > back fromprivatebrowsing mode (each time).

[jacco]

All devs in our office downgraded after receiving this upgrade due to
the lack of HTML support in the XMLHTTPRequests response

[John J Barton]

On Jun 30, 7:11 am, jacco <real...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All devs in our office downgraded after receiving this upgrade due to
> the lack of HTML support  in the XMLHTTPRequests response

Then all devs in your office are exposed to the security flaw we
closed when we shipped that upgrade. I suggest at minimum running two
copies of Firefox, one for development on your own sites using the
compromised version and one for general Web browsing. Only hack
sites that convince you to use Firebug on them are a risk.

Or you can use Firebug 1.8 on Firefox 5.0.

jjb