Re: Firebug no longer shows images previews or color swatches

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Jan Honza Odvarko

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Sep 21, 2012, 2:03:16 AM9/21/12
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On Sep 21, 3:16 am, Shan G <babyrocasm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the last version of FireBug before the latest update
By the last version, do you mean Firebug 1.10.3?

> , whenever you
> hovered over a hex code or an image link, you'd get a little preview of it.
> But now, I have a small blank circle.
Can you please provide detailed steps how to see the problem?

Something like:

1) Load www.google.com
2) Open Firebug, Select the HTML panel
3) Inspect #image element on the page
4) ...

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I quickly tried infotips (the little preview) in the Net,
CSS and Style panel and it seems to be working.

Honza

Shan G

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Oct 3, 2012, 3:12:38 PM10/3/12
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Yes, these are the steps I take:

1) Load FireFox
2) Open Firebug, Select the STYLE panel
3) Inspect #image element on the page
4) get small empty circle instead of image or hex code preview

I don't know what the last version of FireBug was before the last update, all I know is that it worked in that version but not in this one.

How do I fix this?

Jan Honza Odvarko

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Oct 4, 2012, 1:24:38 AM10/4/12
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On Oct 3, 9:12 pm, Shan G <babyrocasm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, these are the steps I take:
>
> 1) Load FireFox
> 2) Open Firebug, Select the STYLE panel
> 3) Inspect #image element on the page
What page?

Btw. make sure you don't have any other extension that could break the
feature installed.

Honza

Sebastian Zartner

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Oct 4, 2012, 1:25:29 AM10/4/12
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What Honza meant is to give a precise test case, not copy his steps.

E.g. for me the infotips are working when I do the following:
  1. Open Firebug on https://www.getfirebug.com/
  2. Switch to the HTML panel and there to the Style side panel
  3. Hover url("/img/bg-grad.jpg") of the background property in the body rule inside the Style side panel

=> The preview of https://www.getfirebug.com/img/bg-grad.jpg is shown in an infotip.

Please make sure it's not another extension that is causing your problem. To do so deactivate all other extensions. Then check if the image previews are working. If yes, enable each of the other extensions one by one and check everytime if the previews are working again.

Sebastian

Shan G

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Oct 4, 2012, 4:46:12 PM10/4/12
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It was the Friendly Bug add-on causing the problem. I guess it was discontinued because it was incompatible. However, I have the Incompatibility checker add-on and it didn't catch it. Apparently, other people were getting the same grey circle I was getting.

Thank you both for your help.

Sebastian Zartner

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Oct 5, 2012, 6:05:26 AM10/5/12
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You're welcome.

Sebastian
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