* Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com> [2007-06-01 13:35]: > On 6/1/07, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasua...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Firebug is much nicer. (but that's off-topic) > > I have a sneaking suspicion, that I'm too lazy to prove, that > it's what's causing my Firefox to respond at a snail's pace.
Yes. Firebug drains a lot of CPU, even when "disabled". You have to bring up the extension manager and disable it for real to get your browser back. (You won't recognise Firefox -- *zippy*! Not an attribute you'd usually associate with that browser.) Of course, that requires a browser restart every time you want to toggle it on/off... but at least Firefox 2 can restart in place without losing your tabs... well at least not most of the time. Still, Firebug's CSS inspection facilities alone are worth it; problems that used to take me hours of guesswork to track down are suddenly matters of just 3 minutes of inspection and live meddling to verify my projected fix. The thing is painful and hateful in various ways, to be sure, but it's like going from sticks and stones to an assault rifle. Sure it might be a pain to clean out the suboptimally designed barrel sometimes... but it's such a leap in technology that whatever hatefulness it may embody just pales in the blinding brightness of progress it represents over the prehistoric tools of yesteryear. I would never go back to doing web stuff without it, despite the things I hate about it. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
