Firebug stopped working with firefox 2.0.0.4

[Nilton Volpato]

Hi,

My firebug just stopped working. I don't know what the problem is.

It appears as enabled (green icon). I can right click it and choose
"disable firebug" but it still appears with the green icon.

I've moved ~/.mozilla and restarted firefox, installed firebug again,
but it shows the same problem!

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
-- Nilton

[Nilton Volpato]

I forgot to tell. But if I left click it, the firebug window does not
open at all. I can select to open in a new window, etc, but nothing
works.

[Ken True]

I'm having the same issue. FireFox 2.0.0.4 and FireBug 1.05.

My FireBug icon in the bottom-right of the status bar is missing too.

I've uninstalled/reinstalled, and same problem.. no FireBug to invoke
(despite it saying that FireBug is enabled in the Add-Ons panel.

I too would appreciate any help on this.

Thanks!!

[John J Barton]

Linux?

[jaygo]

I've got 2.0.0.4 & 1.05 and it's been working fine for me.

When I had trouble with other mozilla plugins, I found I had to
uninstall and delete the
/docs & settings/user/application data/mozilla product folder to get
it working again. For that matter, if you can just uninstall firebug
and locate which folder it's using inside application data, that may
get it back to ground zero for you.

On another note, do you two have any other plugins in common?

[Anunakin]

Firefox 2.0.0.4, at Linux not working anymore... I reinstalled many
times.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070623
Firefox/2.0.0.4

[Ken True]

My Firefox is on WinXP-Pro SP2

I've done multiple installs/reinstalls to no avail.

I'll try delete of the /docs and settings/user/application data/
mozilla product folder and see if that cures the issue.

Ken

[Ken True]

On Jul 9, 11:19 pm, jaygo <jaygo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On another note, do you two have any other plugins in common?

I'm currently running the following plugins (except FireBug 1.0.5
which is not working).

DownThemAll{0.9.9.10}
DownloadStatusbar{0.9.5}
FEBE{5.0}
Fasterfox{2.0.0}
Firebug{1.05}
NoScript{1.1.6.02}
PDFDownload{0.8.1}
TabbrowserPreferences{1.3.1.1}
WebDeveloper{1.1.4}
netcrafttoolbar{1.1.1.7}

Ken

[Nilton Volpato]

I'm using Linux. I've removed ~/.mozilla directory and still got the
same problem.

So, at least in my case, it has nothing to do with firebug settings or
conflict with other plugins, because after removing ~/.mozilla I got a
clean firefox run, with no add-on installed and no configurations
left.

[John J Barton]

Do you see any errors in Firefox->Tools->ErrorConsole?
When you use url="about:config" filter on firebug, do any settings
look wrong?
Do you have the same problem with the fireclipse.xucia.com version?

[Ken True]

> On another note, do you two have any other plugins in common?

Well, this is strange. After the morning install of the Microsoft
patches and a reboot, FireBug is back.
Very weird! I'd stopped/started FireFox many times without Firebug
showing up, and now, the little Green check box is back and the
FireBug console works.

Go figure...

Ken

[Nilton Volpato]

John,

On 12 jul, 03:05, John J Barton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com> wrote:
> Do you see any errors in Firefox->Tools->ErrorConsole?

Yes! See below.

Error: _CC[cName] has no properties
Source File: chrome://firebug/content/xpcom.js
Line: 25

Error: FBL.ns is not a function
Source File: chrome://firebug/content/sourceCache.js
Line: 3

Error: FBL.ns is not a function
Source File: chrome://firebug/content/insideOutBox.js
Line: 3

Error: FBL.ns is not a function
Source File: chrome://firebug/content/tabWatcher.js
Line: 3

Error: FBL.ns is not a function
Source File: chrome://firebug/content/firebug.js
Line: 3

"Error: FBL.ns is not a function" is repeated for a bunch of other
files.

Error: FBL.initialize is not a function
Source File: chrome://firebug/content/chrome.js
Line: 63

> When you use url="about:config" filter on firebug, do any settings
> look wrong?

No. It seems everything is right.

> Do you have the same problem with the fireclipse.xucia.com version?

I've not tried it yet.

But there are a lot of errors shown in ErrorConsole. Does this give
any hint?

Thanks,
-- Nilton

[John J Barton]

var _CC = Components.classes;
So when you load Firebug the Mozilla Components.classes object is
undefined. Something bad is broken in your environment; its not a
Firebug "bug" and the xucia.com version will not help.

John.

[Nilton Volpato]

John,

Any hints on how to fix this? Or where to look for help?

Thanks,
-- Nilton

[John J Barton]

Reinstall FF or get a different version.
John.

[John J Barton]

I accidentally learned more about this problem.

I rebuilt my version of Firebug and it had the symptoms reported here:
green check but nothing works. And I got the error:

Error: _CC[cName] has no properties

At least in my case, the error came when the UI part of Firebug tried
to load the debugger service component (components/firebug-
service.js). My bet is that is also what happened to others who
report this problem.

In my case the root cause was a syntax error in firebug-service.js.
(Insert rant about systems that allow syntax errors to be revealed in
this way). However, this is probably not what caused the problems
reported in this thread.

Rather my guess is that the components registry is corrupted or more
likely the firebug file components/nsIFireBug.xpt is corrupted. Since
most (all?) the reports are on Linux my first guess would be the .xpt
file got put through some line-ending fixer (carriage returns <->
newlines). Almost all files in firebug would survive this, not
the .xpt files. This file must be byte identical to the one in the zip
file.

In case its the components registry, that is easy to repair, just exit
FF, find your Profiles directory, and delete compreg.dat file in your
active profile.

John

On Jul 17, 10:02 am, John J Barton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com>

[Dramatik]

My Firebug Wasn't Working So. I Uninstalled Firebug, Then Re-Installed
It.....Its Working Fine Now. BTW Im Using A Standard Windows XP PC And
I COULD NOT Find This Compreg.Dat File....So I Had To Find Another
Method. Hope This Helps Other People. Peace

[John J Barton]

Yes, uninstalling will delete the compreg.dat file. It lives in your
user profile directory, C:\Documents and Settings\<username>
\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profilename>
John.

[Anunakin]

Here o Firefox 2.0.0.5 I got this error, with Firebug 1.1 beta

Erro: uncaught exception: Failed to load service @joehewitt.com/
firebug;1, (components/firebug-service.js) caused: TypeError:

_CC[cName] has no properties

[John J Barton]

Are you running on Linux? Can you check md5sum on these files in
fir...@software.joehewitt.com/components:
893ca79961e96a29dc54030659f7b3dd *nsIFireBug.xpt
1734908e1740e7f99ebe9546cbd3229b *nsIFireBugWithEval.xpt
John.