FireBug 1.0 public beta bugs

[rbirkby]

I'm on Ubuntu Edgy.

The Firebug 1.0 public beta doesn't render the graphical parts of the
tabs. Nor does it render the icons used for "Open in new window" or
"Close".

Regards,
Richard

[jricher]

FWIW, if you install swiftfox from Automatix, it works in swiftfox, but
not in Firefox.

For right now, I'm going to do that, but it's not my favorite long-term
fix.

[sylvain...@gmail.com]

This is an issue with the Ubuntu/Debian version of Firefox.

They changed the build system which makes Firefox not to look in the
platform/Linux directory for the platform specific chrome manifest, but
in platform/linux-gnu instead.

There's an open bug report about that:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/68663

(The technical details is that they changed the way OS_TARGET should be
computed).

The hack to get around this would be to copy the platform/Linux
directory into platform/linux-gnu in the extension.

Regards,
Sylvain

[Joe]

Aha, that's good to know. In the next beta, I'll just add a separate
linux-gnu platform directory. There's not much in there, just a few
tiny CSS files.

[Dawgdaze]

Sounds like this is the same thing that breaks the google toolbar in
Ubuntu Edgy. Upon install it complains that there is no version
available for my platform. After seeing this it makes sense. Thanks
for the info.

On Dec 4, 4:33 pm, "sylvain.pas...@gmail.com"

[.dudus]

A slightly better workaround would be to create a symlink instead of
copying the folder, something like this.

cd into platform folder
ln -s Linux linux-gnu

It works for me

On Dec 4, 7:33 pm, "sylvain.pas...@gmail.com"

[sylvain...@gmail.com]

That's a good workaround to fix the problem manually after the
extension is installed. However, the Firefox automatic .xpi
installation process is not able to launch shell commands or deal with
symlinks easily if I'm not wrong.

Sylvain