> 1) When I clicked on firebug button in google chrome, its window at
> the bottom pop-ups.
> 2) But when I clicked on the same button for local file on my desktop
> or in some other folder, nothing happens.
> Whats wrong with local file?

> P.S: Of-course I'm working with HTML files!

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> For security reasons, extensions are not allowed to run in pages loaded via
> "file:///" protocol:

> http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Firebug_Lite_FAQ#It_doesn.27t_wo...

> We recommend using a local web server, which the most secure and error proof
> solution.

> At the same time, I presume that the most common case for using "file:///"
> files is related to design things like tweaking CSS, and I also presume that
> not all designers use local web servers.

> We could add "file:///" to the mafinest.json, but there's a bug preventing
> us to execute scripts in it, which means we cannot load Firebug Lite:

> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=30756

> Also, extensions that uses "file:///" in the mafinest.json need to be
> manually approved by Google in order to be in the Chrome Web Store. To avoid
> this problem, we could release it in our site in the beta channel (but first
> we need that bug to be fixed):

> http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/chrome/

> Again, we recommend using a local web server. But if you don't want or
> cannot install one, you can also use the bookmarklet:

> http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite#Install

> Finally, I guess that one more source of confusion about this is that when
> you click at the Firebug Lite extension button, nothing happens. There is no
> message indicating that Firebug Lite could not be loaded. I'll add a message
> box informing what is happening.

> Pedro Simonetti.

> 2011/7/5 ak sh <codename...@gmail.com>

> > 1) When I clicked on firebug button in google chrome, its window at
> > the bottom pop-ups.
> > 2) But when I clicked on the same button for local file on my desktop
> > or in some other folder, nothing happens.
> > Whats wrong with local file?

> > P.S: Of-course I'm working with HTML files!

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> 1) When I clicked on firebug button in google chrome, its window at
> the bottom pop-ups.
> 2) But when I clicked on the same button for local file on my desktop
> or in some other folder, nothing happens.
> Whats wrong with local file?

> P.S: Of-course I'm working with HTML files!