Re: profiling startup TB w extension

neandr <neandrNo_@SPAM_gmx.de> Tue, 03 May 2011 11:19:28 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.jsdebugger
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03.05.2011 10:10, Neil wrote:
> neandr wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to profile the startup process of Thunderbird with a
>> specific extension using Venkman?
>> AFAIK there is a start parameter -- but am not able to find it in the
>> documentation.
>> Beside that, how to "instruct" Venkman to directly profile with startup?
>
> I'm not sure that it comes to the same thing but you could try opening
> Thunderbird with -venkman -jsconsole -silent and then once Venkman had
> opened you could start profiling and then use the Error Console to open
> the main Thunderbird window via openDialog('chrome://messenger/content',
> '', 'all,dialog=no');
>
Great idea .. unfortunately with starting TB that way only the console 
comes up. No Venkman -- because as a extension it needs it's host (which 
isn't started). So no possibility to enable the VKM profiling.

Any further idea?