Firebug 1.13.0a10 on Firefox 29 (beta) console.log not showing

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neongrau

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Apr 10, 2014, 9:30:36 AM4/10/14
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Since i've switched to Firefox 29 Firebug is not showing any console logs anymore.

While the builtin developer console of FF is working fine, Firebug stays silent.
I can manually write a console.log statement in Firebug's command line which gets shown but none from the page i loaded.

When i uninstall Firebug and reinstall it'll momentarily work until first time i reload the page.

I've tried starting from scratch with a new profile (i've imported bookmarks, history and passwords from old one) but that didn't help either.

Anything i can do to get the console logs back?

Jan Honza Odvarko

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Apr 10, 2014, 9:40:08 AM4/10/14
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> Anything i can do to get the console logs back?
Does Firebug 2.0 alpha 2 work for you?
https://blog.getfirebug.com/2014/04/04/firebug-2-0-alpha-2/

If you create a new Firefox profile, does it help?
https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Install_Firebug_into_a_clean_profile
(to avoid collision with another extension)

Honza

Sebastian Zartner

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Apr 11, 2014, 2:45:37 AM4/11/14
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> Anything i can do to get the console logs back?
Does Firebug 2.0 alpha 2 work for you?
https://blog.getfirebug.com/2014/04/04/firebug-2-0-alpha-2/
Note that Firebug 2.0a2 just works with Firefox 30.0+.

If you create a new Firefox profile, does it help?
https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Install_Firebug_into_a_clean_profile
(to avoid collision with another extension)
As I read from the original post this was already tried out.

For me it's working fine using FF 29.0 + FB 1.12.8 on Win7.
neongrau, which Firebug version and OS are you using? Do you have any other extensions installed in your new profile? Could you provide a screenshot of both, Firebug and the built-in console?

Sebastian

Grassboy Wu

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Apr 30, 2014, 2:57:07 AM4/30/14
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It seems like that console.log in firebug will displayed in Firefox 29's Console....

here is a screenshot...

when I invoke a console.log() and press ctrl+shift+k

the message should be displayed in firebug was shown in Firefox 29's Console

but I don't know if this is firebug's bug

or this should be firefox's bug

Jan Honza Odvarko於 2014年4月10日星期四UTC+8下午9時40分08秒寫道:

Lenny Maclean

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Apr 30, 2014, 5:05:41 AM4/30/14
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I'm having the same problem. Installed Firefox v29. The native Firefox dev tools shows the console logs but not firebug :( 

Jan Honza Odvarko

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Apr 30, 2014, 7:04:54 AM4/30/14
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I can't see the problem on my machine. Could you please provide detailed instructions about what exactly to do? (what url to load, what buttons to press, etc.)

For example: does this test work for you?
https://getfirebug.com/tests/head/console/api/log.html

Honza

Yves Van Broekhoven

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Apr 30, 2014, 7:36:01 AM4/30/14
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I'm seeing the same problem.

Browser specs:

Installed addons:

When I visit for example http://google.com, and use console.log, it works. After refreshing the page, it gives me 'undefined':

Does this give you enough info?

Yves

Sasquach

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Apr 30, 2014, 7:43:10 AM4/30/14
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How to reproduce bug:

1. go to https://getfirebug.com/tests/head/console/api/log.html
2. open firebug and click "Execute Test"
3. everything works fine now
4. now refresh page with firebug open
5. click "Execute Test"
6. message won't appear in firebug console...
7. ... but open firefox native tools - there's our message

Álvaro G. Vicario

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Apr 30, 2014, 7:47:27 AM4/30/14
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El jueves, 10 de abril de 2014 15:30:36 UTC+2, neongrau escribió:
Since i've switched to Firefox 29 Firebug is not showing any console logs anymore.

Same switch, same issue. In my case, console messages divide between Firebug and Firefox console. Test code:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head><title>Test</title>
<meta charset="iso-8859-1">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
/**/console.log("jQuery/%s is ready", jQuery().jquery);
jQuery
(function($){
    console
.log("Document ready");
});
//--></script>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>


"jQuery/1.9.1 is ready" goes to Firebug. "Document ready" goes to Firefox (if enabled) or gets lost (if disabled).

Whoever figures out a workaround will be my hero.


 

Jan Honza Odvarko

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Apr 30, 2014, 8:04:10 AM4/30/14
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On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:36:01 PM UTC+2, Yves Van Broekhoven wrote:
I still can't reproduce the problem.

Can you disable the addons you have installed?
Perhaps there is a collision (especially 1password, I recall there was a problem related to this one).

You can also create a new profile, but make sure 1password (or any other extension) isn't installed automatically even into the new profile.

 https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Install_Firebug_into_a_clean_profile

Honza

Jan Honza Odvarko

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On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:43:10 PM UTC+2, Sasquach wrote:
How to reproduce bug:

1. go to https://getfirebug.com/tests/head/console/api/log.html
2. open firebug and click "Execute Test"
3. everything works fine now
4. now refresh page with firebug open
5. click "Execute Test"
6. message won't appear in firebug console...
7. ... but open firefox native tools - there's our message

I tried the steps but no luck, I still can see the logs in Firebug's Console panel.
Any other extensions installed in your profile?
If yes, can you disable them and test again?

Honza

 

Jan Honza Odvarko

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Apr 30, 2014, 8:08:05 AM4/30/14
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Weird, I can see two logs in Firebug's Console panel every time I refresh the page

jQuery/1.9.1 is ready                 console.html (line 7)
Document ready                       console.html (line 9)

Any extensions installed in your case?

Honza

 

nom prenom

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Apr 30, 2014, 9:04:56 AM4/30/14
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Hi, i have the same problem with firefox 29, for me, it's a conflict with wappalyzer module,
 I deactivated wappalyzer, and firebug works fine.

Sorry for my bad english.


Lenny Maclean

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Apr 30, 2014, 9:27:21 AM4/30/14
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Ok i disabled all Add-ons except for FireBug and restarted FireFox. opened FireBug and i started to get console.log messages again, YAY! Closed FireBug and opened the native console to FireFox and i stopped getting console.log messages...... Basically the reverse problem. 
I will go back and enable the add-ons and try and pin point the one that caused the FireBug issue. 

Jan Honza Odvarko

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Apr 30, 2014, 9:48:39 AM4/30/14
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Thanks for the info! I have reported the wappalyzer extension problem here:
https://github.com/ElbertF/Wappalyzer/issues/542

Honza

Jan Honza Odvarko

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Apr 30, 2014, 9:48:59 AM4/30/14
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On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 3:27:21 PM UTC+2, Lenny Maclean wrote:
Ok i disabled all Add-ons except for FireBug and restarted FireFox. opened FireBug and i started to get console.log messages again, YAY! Closed FireBug and opened the native console to FireFox and i stopped getting console.log messages...... Basically the reverse problem. 
I will go back and enable the add-ons and try and pin point the one that caused the FireBug issue. 
Thanks!

Honza

Lenny Maclean

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Apr 30, 2014, 9:54:29 AM4/30/14
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the problem Add-on for me is "Ghostey 5.2.1" disabled it and FireBug is working again but still no console logs on the FireFoxes native console..... 

Andrew Jameson

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Apr 30, 2014, 9:55:50 AM4/30/14
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I have the same problem, and I don't have Wappalyzer installed.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Firebug (v1.12.8, which seems to be the latest version compatible with FF29), restarted the browser and was able to print to the console from the console, but no console messages from javascript files would appear.

I then gave the browser another restart and now neither logging from the console or from javascript files works.

Álvaro G. Vicario

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Apr 30, 2014, 10:57:57 AM4/30/14
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El miércoles, 30 de abril de 2014 14:08:05 UTC+2, Jan Honza Odvarko escribió:
Weird, I can see two logs in Firebug's Console panel every time I refresh the page

jQuery/1.9.1 is ready                 console.html (line 7)
Document ready                       console.html (line 9)

Any extensions installed in your case?

My findings:

- The guilty add-on is "The easiest Xdebug 1.2"
- It only fails with "http" ("file" is unaffected)
- It works fine in Private Browsing (no matter protocol or add-ons)

Farshid Beheshti

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Apr 30, 2014, 11:17:47 AM4/30/14
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> I have the same problem, and I don't have
> Wappalyzer installed.

As you can see, the other extensions (no just Wappalyzer) cause the problem, so please install Firebug in a clean profile and let us know if you have the same problem yet.
https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Install_Firebug_into_a_clean_profile.

Farshid

Jan Honza Odvarko

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May 1, 2014, 3:33:25 AM5/1/14
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One comment coming from Wappalyzer team:
https://github.com/ElbertF/Wappalyzer/issues/542#issuecomment-41801482

In order to see Wappalyzer logging we need to set in about:config the variable extensions.sdk.console.logLevel to all see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tools/console#Logging%20Levels

So, check also the preference in your config.

Honza

Andrew Jameson

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May 3, 2014, 12:59:59 PM5/3/14
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I think I've found what was causing my no-console-logging problem: I'm using Visual Studio 2013, with Web Essentials. Web Essentials has a 'browser link' tool which allows - I think - some modifications made in the browser to be pushed back into Visual Studio.

I didn't notice this message on my work computer, but on my laptop I noticed that the Firefox console (i.e. not Firebug but the built-in developer tools' console) displayed a message saying that the console API had been disabled by a plug-in. I clicked on the message and it took me into a minified line of JS inside the browser-link.js file.

So I then went into Visual Studio's options and disabled the 'browser link' setting (set it to false) and tried again.

Voila! I now have console-logging in Firebug once more.

Grassboy Wu

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May 5, 2014, 7:27:11 AM5/5/14
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I built a simple firefox addon for reproducing the bug.

and place it in https://github.com/Grassboy/page-mod-test

this is a addon that will change all of your page title automatically
(source: https://github.com/Grassboy/page-mod-test/blob/master/lib/main.js )

then... following steps will reproduce the bug

1. create a new profile
2. install firebug and this addon (page-mod-test.xpi)
3. goto www.google.com
4. ctrl+shift+j open the browser console and F12 open firebug console
5. reload page
6. invoke console.log in firebug, the log string will appear in browser console

In my opinion... It should be firefox's bug...
( and i created a bug report in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1005859 )
because this bug appeared after firefox 29 released
and the version of my firebug didn't changed these days...


---

btw, if you are using greasemonkey, the userscript with "@grant GM_xmlhttpRequest" will cause this bug either...

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Kim Hildeqvist

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May 5, 2014, 9:15:32 AM5/5/14
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I ran into this issue aswell with Win 8.1 - FF29 - Firebug 1.12.8

Deactivating Ghostery plugin solved it.

Alex Natrek

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May 5, 2014, 11:10:58 AM5/5/14
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This resolve my problem, waiting when weppalyzer resolve this problem.

среда, 30 апреля 2014 г., 16:04:56 UTC+3 пользователь nom prenom написал:

Roberto Segura

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May 5, 2014, 12:41:15 PM5/5/14
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For me it was caused also by "The easiest Xdebug 1.2"

Thanks!!

al...@clarkscomputers.co.uk

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May 6, 2014, 8:34:53 AM5/6/14
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I've had the same issue. For me; disabling 'Skype Click to Call" resolved it.

Eric BLANQUER

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May 7, 2014, 9:27:51 AM5/7/14
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For me, an active GreseMonkey script is the cause of this issue, when I disable GreaseMonkey, console.log works fine.

Zakaria Gatra

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May 7, 2014, 9:34:41 AM5/7/14
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It was the same. I disabled it and everything worked well again

Ravshan Abbasov

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On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 6:27:51 PM UTC+5, Eric BLANQUER wrote:
For me, an active GreseMonkey script is the cause of this issue, when I disable GreaseMonkey, console.log works fine.


The same for me. After disabling GreasyMonkey console.log is working like a charm.

jen.m...@gmail.com

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I had the same issue with the Nimbus Screen Capture add on. Console log working fine now that's disabled.

Remo Outila

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May 8, 2014, 5:48:48 PM5/8/14
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The Firebug 'console' object seems to get replaced (by Firefox?).
This workaround works for me:

// store the Firebug console object
var firebugConsole = console;

jQuery
(document).ready(function() {
   
// and restore it on domready
   window
.console = firebugConsole;
});


This is not a global workaround though... For a global workaround you could probably use GreaseMonkey.

Jan Honza Odvarko

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May 9, 2014, 5:37:00 AM5/9/14
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Note that this is Firefox platform regression bug.
Watch this bug report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1005859

You can also vote for fix directly in the report!

Honza

Miqi180

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May 10, 2014, 7:41:41 PM5/10/14
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After updating to Firefox 29.0.1 today, I ran into the same problem with Firebug 1.12.8. Removing Ghostery fixed it.

auroras

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May 12, 2014, 5:17:24 AM5/12/14
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Thanks!

Disabling Ghostery also fixed it for me :-)

- Rich

Enrique Ramírez

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May 12, 2014, 2:54:28 PM5/12/14
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Happening to me as well, but a little different.

My application has a lot of console.log on development. 20+ logs just on page load. I am getting around 4 of those 20, the rest of them appearing on firefox's console. I've removed all of my other plugins, reinstalled firebug and started with a new profile. It sorta fixed the issue. I get my 20 initial logs and the first event that is triggered by user input, but starting from there they all go to firefox's console.

Firefox version is 29.0 and firebug's is 1.12.8.

Christian Knuth

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May 13, 2014, 10:06:20 AM5/13/14
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got the same problem today. i found out that "Wappalyzer" Plugin causes the error. The weird thing about it was that the console.log statements in the root lines of my js files worked, but within the jquery scope of:
$(function(){
  console.log('foo');
});

it failed.

i deactived Wappalyzer now.

Gavin Hewitt

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May 14, 2014, 4:44:31 AM5/14/14
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For me it was disabling 1password that fixed it.

Steve Crickett

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May 14, 2014, 6:58:44 AM5/14/14
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Thanks. 1Password was what was causing it for me also. Hope a fix comes out soon as 1Password is more important to me than Firebug, although I use both constantly. Don't really want to do without either, but at least the native FF console shows the output.

NotoriousWebmaster

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May 14, 2014, 9:47:36 AM5/14/14
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Same issue using FF 29.0.1, OSX 10.9.2, FB 1.12.8.

Removed Easiest XDebug, and all's well again. Thanks guy!

Travis Detert

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May 14, 2014, 3:02:43 PM5/14/14
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This was also my problem.  

Chris Carey

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May 14, 2014, 9:44:23 PM5/14/14
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Skype "click to call" was the culprit for me

Scott Penrose

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I am having the same problem on fire fox 29.0.1, 1.12.8. However I can tell you for me it is only on a callback. So if I put in a console.log it appears. But as soon as I put it in a callback for a jQuery $.each or any type of AJAX, I don't get any console.log, but still get alert.

Other extensions like 1Password removed might work around the problem, but they have not changed and I need them too. Might move to using internal Firefox dev tools, can't work without a console.log.

laz.br...@gmail.com

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Am Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2014 04:25:52 UTC+2 schrieb Scott Penrose:
I am having the same problem on fire fox 29.0.1, 1.12.8. However I can tell you for me it is only on a callback. So if I put in a console.log it appears. But as soon as I put it in a callback for a jQuery $.each or any type of AJAX, I don't get any console.log, but still get alert.

Other extensions like 1Password removed might work around the problem, but they have not changed and I need them too. Might move to using internal Firefox dev tools, can't work without a console.log.


Same here. Only timeout callback or any sort of event handlers - no console.log

Disabling the one-password addon fixed it for me too though.

Strange.

John Pansewicz

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May 19, 2014, 2:53:15 PM5/19/14
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Same for me... disabling Skype Click To Call fixed the problem.

Yuriy Shikhanovich

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May 19, 2014, 5:16:29 PM5/19/14
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Just to add a data point Remo's fix worked for me as did removing "Coupons at Checkout" add-on.

Julio Loayza

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May 28, 2014, 5:33:01 PM5/28/14
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Disabling Greasemonkey (1.15) solved the problem in my case.

Jan Honza Odvarko

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May 29, 2014, 3:42:35 AM5/29/14
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Note that the problem is fixed in Firefox 30 (currently beta) that will be released in couple of weeks on Tuesday 10th of June.

Honza

Spencer Williams

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Jun 4, 2014, 10:12:59 AM6/4/14
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Yep! I was experiencing all of this: No console messages in Firebug but double messages in Firefox's own debug console. Disabled "Skype Click to Call",
didn't even restart, and now I'm consoling it up in my favorite debugger again.



On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 6:34:53 AM UTC-6, al...@clarkscomputers.co.uk wrote:

Jan Honza Odvarko

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Note that Firebug 2.0 has been released. This version fixes the problem with the console logging
https://blog.getfirebug.com/2014/06/10/firebug-2-0/

Honza

Grassboy Wu

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Sep 28, 2014, 10:55:50 PM9/28/14
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Excuse me, now I am using Firefox 33 & Firebug 2.0.4

this bug comes again...

is it cause by same issue?

or there is another issue cause this bug?

thanks for your help!!

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