There is a single case, in which Firebug creates additional network requests. This is to load the sources for a JavaScript file in case the browser cache and the *Net* panel <https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Net_Panel> are disabled while the *Script* panel <https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Script_Panel> is enabled. See issue 7585 <https://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=7585>.
Otherwise Firebug does not create network requests. And if it's disabled for a page it even doesn't use any ressources. If I understand you well, you have a single page that consists of 2,000 files? If so, you should definitely try to reduce the number of requests. Anyway, as a shot in the dark I'd say your requests may be caused by redirects. I suggest you try out your steps using a new Firefox profile <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles>. If you still get this huge amount of requests, it's related to the page or the server*. If you get the expected number of requests, go back to your normal profile, disable all extensions and check again whether you see the correct amount of requests. If so, enable the extensions one by one and try it again after enabling each extension. * I remember a case, in which a bug in a specific version of a ColdFusion server executed a script twice for a single request. (Though that's definitely an exceptional case.) Sebastian On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 8:52:57 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > I have question that I couldn't answer via Google research so far: > if I access a webpage, e.g. with images, banners, thumbnails etc, does > Firebug hit every single element of that webpage to analyze it even if I > don't use it explicitly on that page but only have the plugin installed to > firefox, resulting in enormous numbers of hit counts as if you'd be using a > download plugin or script? > In my case I had downloaded a little above 2000 files which ended up in > over 17,000 hit counts registered by the server. And now I'm trying to find > the source for that because I didn't use any download script or similar (I > have DownThemAll installed but didn't use it here, though). > Any help/advice would be appreciated. > > Best regards. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/firebug/d0444bb5-6708-484c-86c8-8b29a77143af%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
