Re: Firefox v. Dev Plugin

I've mentioned this in other threads, but I'll repeat here: Under the new rapid-release model, Mozilla is intentionally breaking binary compatibility with xpcom components on every release. We are forced to rebuild for every platform with every release.

Our existing processes for maintaining the plugin come from a time long before this model. Due to the number of platforms that we support, manually building a new release of the plugin takes a decent amount of time. Mozilla has said that the binary API can change up until the official release, so that rules out attempting to start on this work early. Moreover, future updates will almost certainly have real breaking changes that could require significant time to address.

In the meantime, I would suggest running against whatever version of Firefox is supported. If some version specific issue comes up that you must debug before we can get a release out, then you may just have to build the plugin yourself. But, these 'major' releases are really quite minor. In all likelihood, any issue you want to debug in DevMode will surface in the same way in FF6 as in FF7.

I know this isn't the answer you (or many people) want to hear, but that's the reality today.

P.S.

I would advise people on this list to be cautious about downloading plugin binaries from other people. It's much safer to build your own from source or wait for an official release.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Gregory Dougherty <gregdmayo@gmail.com> wrote:

For those of us who debug our GWT apps in Firefox, and would kind of
like to keep up to date on Firefox releases, could someone from Google
give a quick rundown on why it is that each of the last three (four ?)
Firefox releases has broken the Dev Plugin, apparently each in new
ways?  Are the people working of Firefox just doing stupid things?
Does the GWT Developer Plugin just assume that it must be incompatible
with any X+1.0 release?

Why is it that the Developer Plugin for Firefox only seems to get
"cleared" for the current version of Firefox less than a week before
the next ("hyper critical, be sure to replace your previous version")
version comes out?

TIA,

Greg

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