All, Firebug is awesome. Can't live without it. But in the versions after 1.2, I'm experiencing a performance problem so bad we cannot use them. Wasn't a problem until FF3.5, where 1.2 is no longer compatible.
I'm not really complaining so much as thinking I must have some setup issue. There's no way that it can be this slow for everyone. Here are the details... We have a web application I mostly run/debug on localhost. It's a single-page app, that renders data in grids that are inside draggable, floating "windows" (divs) with all the various bells. All rendering is handled via Javascript on the client, with all communication to the server done via AJAX. It makes heavy use of jQuery. When debugging, there are a lot of individual Javascript files that we merge and min into a single file for distribution. But obviously I need Firebug to work with the indivual files for debugging. There's a single CSS file. And there are a lot of pretty small image files for things like icons, backgrounds, etc. On Firefox 3.0, w/Firebug 1.2x, everything in the app from initial page load to dragging 1000x1000 px grids around to paging through huge datasets is near instantaneous. Just very very fast. On Firefox 3.0, w/Firebug 1.3x, everything slows down tremendously. Just loading the initial page takes anywhere from 3-5 seconds on localhost (used to be instant on localhost, <1s via fast DSL connection). Most of the time seems to be during the loading of the many small images and javascript source files. AJAX performance is greatly slowed as well. So we stuck with Firebug 1.2x and waited for each new Firebug release to test if performance had improved. Now, with Firefox 3.5, w/Firebug 1.4x, things are perhaps even slower. No improvement, maybe even some degradation. I'm wondering if I'm the only one to see this significant performance difference? Or is there perhaps some setting or system issue causing the performance meltdown? I'm running on a pretty fast laptop w/Windows Vista 32bit, 4GB RAM, dual-core processor. And as I've said, since 1.2 is screamingly fast, it doesn't seem like a hardware thing. Note that even with all Firebug 1.4x panels disabled, performance is still really, really slow as compared to 1.2 Things I've tried: - creating a new profile - installing Firefox 3.5 - ensuring that javascript.options.strict is set to 'false' - disabling all panels for all sites Has anybody else seen this very slow performance problem? Is there something I can tweak to get the newer Firebug versions to work at a more useable speed? Thanks for any help. Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
