Firebug 1.8.0

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

http://blog.getfirebug.com/2011/07/29/firebug-1-8-0/
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/07/firebug-1-8-new-features/

Honza

[Lozzy]

I, for one, am really glad to hear that you're working on performance
and stability. I know Firebug is better suited to being used in a
dedicated developer profile, but I relish the thought that I might be
able to keep Firebug on my day to day profile without a performance
penalty.

Previously, I used to disable Firebug when I wasn't specifically using
it, but I found that I missed it too much. It's nice to have it
available when you see something interesting on the web and you want
to find out how it works.

[monk (freakyfractal)]

Can I post a little issue? It's with the website.. on the downloads page ( http://getfirebug.com/downloads ) the link for 1.8 points to the 1.7 release.

I was looking for an email address to report this issue to, I hope you don't mind me posting it here.

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

On Jul 30, 3:45 pm, "monk (freakyfractal)" <freakyfrac...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Can I post a little issue? It's with the website.. on the downloads page (http://getfirebug.com/downloads) the link for 1.8 points to the 1.7

> release.
>
> I was looking for an email address to report this issue to, I hope you don't
> mind me posting it here.

This is the right place.

Fixed, thanks!
Please verify.
Honza

[Anonymous]

My firebug status bar icon has disappeared with firebug 1.8, did that
happen for anyone else?

[Brad L]

Right click on the menu bars and select Customize, you will see it
there. drag and drop it to where you want it

[joelarson]

Brad - I have the same problem, and on the Customize screen I do not
see a Firebug icon. Thoughts?

Screenshots:

http://joewlarson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Screen-shot-2011-08-01-at-11.34.36-AM.png
http://joewlarson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Screen-shot-2011-08-01-at-11.34.43-AM.png

[JasilM]

Icon missing from Status Bar and it's not available under Customize
Menu Bar either. Reverting...

[Anthony]

On Aug 1, 7:14 pm, JasilM <hey.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Icon missing from Status Bar and it's not available under Customize
> Menu Bar either. Reverting...

Same here. I'm using Firefox 5.0 on Windows Vista 64bit professional

[Brad L]

Mine was at the very bottom row, when I picked the bug one and put it
at the top menu bar the Inspector one put itself at the bottom.

On Aug 1, 2:43 pm, joelarson <joelars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brad - I have the same problem, and on the Customize screen I do not
> see a Firebug icon.  Thoughts?
>
> Screenshots:
>

>  http://joewlarson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Screen-shot-201...
>  http://joewlarson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Screen-shot-201...

[Brad L]

Make sure firebug is installed correctly and activated

On Aug 1, 2:43 pm, joelarson <joelars...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Brad - I have the same problem, and on the Customize screen I do not
> see a Firebug icon.  Thoughts?
>
> Screenshots:
>

>  http://joewlarson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Screen-shot-201...
>  http://joewlarson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Screen-shot-201...

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

On Aug 1, 8:43 pm, joelarson <joelars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brad - I have the same problem, and on the Customize screen I do not
> see a Firebug icon.  Thoughts?

This could be a problem with the Firefox profile.

Please try following two things:

1) check out Firefox Error Console
Firefox Menu -> Web Developer -> Error Console
(or in Tools if you have traditional menu bar displayed)
Do you see any errors?

2) install FBTrace extension (Firebug tracing console used to debug
Firebug)
http://getfirebug.com/releases/fbtrace/1.8/fbTrace-1.8b8.xpi

Open: Firebug Icon menu -> Open Firebug Tracing

In the console window go to the Options tab and check ERRORS
restart Firefox and check the console.
Do you see any errors?

I bet it'll work if you create a new Firefox profile
http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Installing_in_a_clean_profile

If it does, could you compare these two profiles and find out the
difference?

Honza

[Sullivan]

Same problem here.

I installed a new profile and Firebug in this profile, but the Firebug
icon has not appeared, even after the Customize process (no Firebug
icon in the list).

OS: MacOSX ; Firefox 5.0.1

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

On Aug 3, 10:04 am, Sullivan <s.gauvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Same problem here.
>
> I installed a new profile and Firebug in this profile, but the Firebug
> icon has not appeared, even after the Customize process (no Firebug
> icon in the list).

Do you have any other Firefox extension installed?
If you create a new Firefox profile (with only Firebug installed) does
it help?

Honza

[Julien]

Hi,

i have the same problem with MacOSX ; Firefox 5.0.1.
I tried with a new profile and it works fine.
I tried disabling all my extensions and still won't work.

I have the followings errors in console :

Erreur : FBL.getAncestorByClass is not a function
Fichier Source : chrome://firebug/content/firefox/bindings.xml
Ligne : 443

Erreur : FBL.$STR is not a function
Fichier Source : chrome://firebug/content/firefox/bindings.xml
Ligne : 1391

Erreur : FBL.getAncestorByClass is not a function
Fichier Source : chrome://firebug/content/firefox/bindings.xml
Ligne : 443

Erreur : FBTrace is not installed, use empty implementation
Fichier Source : resource://firebug_rjs/lib/trace.js
Ligne : 16

My other extensions are : Colorzilla 2.5.5, FirefFTP 1.99.4, MeasureIt
0.4.9, Popup ALT Attribute 2.0.2011040501, ShowIP 1.0, Web Developer
1.1.9, Xmarks 4.0.1

Thanks

[Julien]

Ok i just saw the official post that explains it all!
http://blog.getfirebug.com/2011/08/03/firebug-start-button/
Arf! How could i miss the new button... :)

Thanks!

[Jarod_]

I'm very disappointed by this new release of Firebug. I used to test
lot of code in the Javascript console, and Firebug always helped me to
find where my error was with a useful error message (where the syntax
error is or which one, etc). Now Firebug 1.8 returns a very useless
message that looks like Internet Explorer. Just a "syntax error", or
"type error" or just "error".....

Here is an example :
var foo = document.getElementById("something"); // with this id that
doesn't exist
foo=foo.parentNode;

Before: "TypeError: foo is null"
Now: TypeError { fileName="resource://firebug_rjs/...e/
commandLineExposed.js", source="with(_FirebugCommandLin...br.tagName !
= "tr");\n};", lineNumber=151}

Do I have to do anything special to have the previous clear and
helpful error message instead of this useless message ? If not, how
can I change the Firebug 1.7 to be compatible with Firefox 6 (I tried
to change install.rdf and zip again but Firefox doesn't want to
install it... maybe I should try to desactivate the compatibility in
Firefox directly :-/)

Please help...

Thanks.

[Harutyun Amirjanyan]

thanks for noticing this bug.
it is caused by change in the way firefox nativeWrapers work
firebug now doesn't understand that object is an error and just prints
generic info
will be fixed in the next release

untill then you can use acebug
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/128913/acebug-1.8b1-fx.xpi
with which this bug happens only for oneLined commandLine, commandLine
works fine

[Jarod_]

On 19 août, 15:06, Harutyun Amirjanyan <amirjan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks for noticing this bug.
> it is caused by change in the way firefox nativeWrapers work
> firebug now doesn't understand that object is an error and just prints
> generic info
> will be fixed in the next release
>

>  untill then you can use acebughttps://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/128913/acebug-1.8b1...

> with which this bug happens only for oneLined commandLine, commandLine
> works fine

Thanks for the reply and the workaround !