Comment on "attempt to run compile-and-go script on a cleared scope"

[Dave Merrill]

I'm seeing this error in one specific circumstance, and I thought it best to let firebug devs know about it. My understanding is that it may be a firefox, not firebug, issue (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635548), but I wanted to give those more qualified an opportunity to check, and to pass this info along to the Mozilla folks if appropriate. The error msg is a little ambiguous about whether it originates in firebug or not; two different files and line numbers are given.

As suggested elsewhere, I'm currently running the latest 1.8 release I could find, 1.8.0b3, but I'm only running that beta because I started seeing this error in 1.7. I do NOT have Show Chrome Errors or Show Chrome Messages checked. This is firefox 4.0.1.

Here's where I see the error: I have an app that opens another window. If I drag the tab of that secondary window into the tab bar of another one, it docks there, and the original secondary window closes, as expected.

After that, moving the mouse over any element in the newly-docked secondary window causes this error to appear in the console. As you can imagine, it leaves the firebug console fairly useless, drowned in spew.

Here's the full error msg, as copied by firebug's Copy Error tool:

attempt to run compile-and-go script on a cleared scope

resource://firebug_rjs/lib/object.js

Line 19

Here's what I actually see displayed in the firebug console:

attempt to run compile-and-go script on a cleared scope

return function bind() { return fn.....cloneArray(args), 0, arguments)); }

object.js (line 19)

<System>

Hope this is helpful, and that wherever this originates, it gets resolved for FF4. I imagine I'll continue to need that version for some time.

(Thanks, once again, so much, for all that you do for firebug. It's changed my dev life, as I'm sure it has many many others.)

Dave