Firebug is a great piece of software but the recent change in
activation is making things tricky for my web development work and
general browsing.

For example right now I have 20+ tabs open. I want firebug active on
them all except my Gmail tab (as it makes Gmail run like a dog) but if
I click "On for All Web Pages" then the "off" button isn't present so
I can't disable it for the Gmail domain. If I choose "Off for All Web
Pages" then I don't have the Gmail issue but if I make Firebug active
for a tab/domain and then switch tabs when I come back to the original
tab Firebug is off again.

I think the thing that is missing is the ability for Firebug to
maintain it's state between tab switches - like becoming a background
process. I am not sure if this is a bug or part of the new feature.

Either way perhaps you can help me by suggesting the settings I should
use to enable Firebug permanently on certain tabs but disable it
permanently on other tabs, and I still want to be able to minimise
Firebug (but it carries on running) for the tabs it is activated on -
as far as I can see this is only possible with domain based
activation?

Thanks

Nick

On Jul 8, 8:31 am, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2:36 pm, Ryan Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I think that this is the wrong approach.  For someone who does a lot
> > of web development, I want firebug to be on for just the domains that
> > I want, and I want it to be hard to accidently turn off.  I rely on
> > the js error counts on the firebug status icon, and since switching to
> > FF3.5 + FB1.4 I have missed a lot of errors because FB was off, where
> > I thought or expected it to be on.  I have tried using the "On for All
> > Web Pages" option in the context menu, but that makes sites like Gmail
> > unresponsive.  The list of domains that firebug should always be on
> > for was a much better solution for day to day use.  Please add it back.
>
> I guess you may not realize that the [X] button on the far right side
> acts differently in 1.4. The next release will make the difference
> clear. Once you realize that the [X] deactivate Firebug for a domain,
> I think things will be much better.
>
> There are two controls for minimize, the function you probably want
> instead of deactivate:
>    A minimize icon: [_] on the right
>    Toggling the firebug status bar icon
>
> jjb

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