Re: How to use Firebug for many domains ?

[johnjbarton]

I know that Firebug creates the illusion that the history was cleared
between the pages when the domain changes. However, this is not the
case. The new domain creates a completely new 'context' or metadata
collection for the page. So the history isn't cleared, but rather a
new history is started and the old one is destroyed. Carrying
information across is easy enough, but Firefox does not make any
connection between the two pages so we need to come up with a way to
make the connection.

Notice that the seemingly obvious connection of "using the same tab"
does not work because sites and users can cause the two pages to
appear in different tabs and users can cause an unrelated sites to
take over a tab.

Firebug 1.4 has 'viral activation' that attempts to keep Firebug
active in just the kinds of cases where you don't want the history to
be cleared. So a good next step would be to add info to the Console
and/or net panel from the stored activation information. If anyone
wants to work on that let us know.

jjb

On Jun 28, 6:54 am, Guillaume MOUTINHO <moutinho....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to use Firebug to analyse de http request and response, but in
> the flow, the domain is changing that's clear the history of my
> previous capture and I can't have a global view.
>
> Is it possible to configure Firebug to not clear the history when
> domain is changing ?
> Thanks.
>
> (sorry for my english, I'm french :) )

[johnjbarton]

Yes, sorry my suggestion was for Firebug extension work. It's pretty
complicated JS code.
jjb

On Jun 28, 8:13 am, Guillaume MOUTINHO <moutinho....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay,
> but I don't understand how "add info to the Console and/or net panel
> from the stored activation information". I'm not sure to have
> understood evrything : that's an option that we find in firebug
> options/command line or that's a future add-on?
>
> thanks again :)

[johnjbarton]

I guess the two issues, 1187 and 313 are related. If you log and
'star' the issue I think you get email notifications.
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=1187
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=313

Note that these issues illustrate some of the complexity hidden behind
what seems to be a simple issue.

There is contributed code on 1187 which could be used for an
extension. That patch touches fundamental Firebug code, most of which
we did not understand back in October. In the meantime we rewrote some
of it. So using this code would not be so simple.

jjb

On Jun 28, 9:27 am, Guillaume MOUTINHO <moutinho....@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, so for the moment, Firebug not handle with that ?
> How can I receive news about that if someday this work is done ?
>
> Thanks to you and all firebug community for you help.