You don't have to remove Firebug. You can avoid the penalty any of three ways: 1) Firebug status bar icon right click suspend 2) Firebug Script panel "disable" for all open tabs 3) Firebug Script panel script-limiter (next to file list), set from All to Static
jjb On Nov 7, 2:53 pm, The Love Dada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would have hoped there would be no impact unless I was actually > using it. It's not very convenient that I have to disable or remove > this addon (or use multiple profiles) to avoid a performance penalty > in normal browsing. > > Although I would add that Firebug is so brilliant I have nothing > really to complain about. > > On Nov 7, 10:44 pm, John J Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Depends on the size and number of evals, but if you are beyond trivial > > number then yes, you should expect a slowdown on Firebug 1.1-1.3. > > > You won't see a slow down on Firebug 1.0 because there is no eval() > > debugging support in 1.0. > > > You will see a much lower slowdown in Firebug 1.4 unless you are using > > breakpoints. If you breakpoint an eval function, you are back to the > > same as 1.3. > > > The cause is 1) every function compiled takes a (hidden) breakpoint > > and some JS code 2) every eval buffer is passed thru MD5. > > > jjb > > > On Nov 7, 2:34 pm, The Love Dada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I raised this bugzilla record > > > todayhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463669 > > > when I noticed a sudden slowdown in a particular eval() I was doing - > > > turns out this is completely resolved by uninstalling Firebug. > > > > I would quite expect a slowdown if the profiler was running for > > > example but I see a very noticeable slowdown even when Firebug is not > > > being used, i.e. console not open, profiler not running etc. Is that > > > something to be expected or a bug ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
