Comments on: Firebug 1.5: New Features and ready for Firefox 3.6

By: jerone

jerone — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:21:14 +0000

A positive comment: I’m loving this new release, works better and faster. Keep up the great work and add more features too.

By: Aphrodisiac

Aphrodisiac — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:38:19 +0000

Thats very helpful thanks you

By: pmontrasio

pmontrasio — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:08:17 +0000

Firebug 1.5.0 is not crashing FF 3.6pre when I inspect DOM elements on my Ubuntu 9.04 64bit. Maybe I’m just lucky but according to datasage the browser shouldn’t crash with this version of FF.

By: fermo111

fermo111 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:16:01 +0000

Tried 1.5, reverted back to 1.4.5

First 2 things (essential) that do not work:
1) Break on all errors does not break at all
2) Clicking on the link (line …) in Console tab, does not open the file (it switches to the Script tab but the panel is blank)

By: ExtAnimal

ExtAnimal — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:05:22 +0000

The “Break on all errors” option now breaks on WARNINGS!

This is not good and makes debugging ERRORS quite difficult when you have to continue over scores of warnings!

By: datasage

datasage — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:59:44 +0000

For those with using firefox on 64-bit linux. There is a bug in firefox (fixed in 3.5.8 or 3.6) that is causing a crash with firebug 1.5. Probably should have waited to release it, but i am having good luck with it in 3.6 RC1.

By: AngusC

AngusC — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:49 +0000

Will be great when its finished but right now I’d be happy if I could get it to stop at just one breakpoint :-(

By: sarahp

sarahp — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:26:07 +0000

I really appreciate Firebug, I use it constantly to do my work, and appreciate those that work on it.

Unfortunately I have to concur with other Ubuntu users that this latest release only makes my Firefox browser crash when I go to inspect. I’ll have to downgrade, and update once it gets the kinks worked out.

By: SamGoody

SamGoody — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:50:06 +0000

Thanks Firebug team.
I do appreciate all the work you guys are doing.

While I have not yet tested (have to restart the browser), I have no lack of thanks for your work at making my job doable.

By: sroussey

sroussey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:34:30 +0000

I’m a big ExtJS user (stever on the forums — wish I could change my name there), and joined the Firebug Working Group last year to focus on fixing bugs. Like all devs know, a solid and simple test case is the key to fixing stuff. And you the issue list is here:
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/

Create a new one here:
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/entry

I can’t say I added much as far as features, but I was nicknamed a ‘serial bug killer’. ;) That said, I’m making a Firebug extension for all you JS framework users (jQuery, ExtJS, etc) for the 1.6 time frame. I’m going to succumb to feature bloat, but it will be a separate extension.

A few notes on problems installing Firebug 1.5:
- If you are running Ubuntu 64bit, they ship a buggy version of Firefox in 64bit that will crash. Suse has the bugfix backported from 3.6, I believe, so they are in the clear. Ubuntu 64bit users should download something from Mozilla directly (either 32bit 3.5 or either 32/64 of Fx 3.6) or complain to Ubuntu.

- If you have firebug extensions (FireDiff, FirePHP, FireQuery, etc.), they need to be updated at the same time! A goal for Firebug 1.6 is to get the extension makers on board and have them tested as a group.

- If the install of Firebug fails, try with anti-virus off. There is an anti-virus company that gets tripped up by Firebug installing for God knows what reason, but it makes a mess of things.

By: magmoro

magmoro — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:04:56 +0000

New firebug is still buggy, sometimes don’t show errors. It’s suxx. If i
have typo conosle.log firebug don’t show it very often. Only after
opening page in new tab or new window firebug begin to show errors.

Firebug developers – stop creating new features and changes how it’s work, make it free of bugs before!

my environment – ff3.5.7 mac os x 10.5.8 firebug 1.5

By: RoryH

RoryH — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:52:32 +0000

Yeah, installed it, uninstalled it and re-installed 1.4, all good again.

My FF didn’t crash but I saw problems with scripts not being shown as present, breakpoints could not be set (easily) and the lack of the “Break on all errors” option nearly gave me a coronary!!

Looking forward to the unofficially ‘stable’ release

By: paziek

paziek — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:36:17 +0000

I think you should pull this version from stable label, as this clearly isn’t stable yet. Seems like I’m not the only one with the issues.

By: nasp

nasp — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:28:29 +0000

Ubuntu 9.10, click the grey bug icon => instant crash

By: ExtAnimal

ExtAnimal — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:26:29 +0000

I’ve just had the debugger jump to completely the wrong line of ext-all-debug.js. Firebug really does get horribly confused if the source file you are debugging is 70,000 lines long.

By: WillPeavy

WillPeavy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:38:40 +0000

I’ve been using Firebug 1.5 on Fx 3.6 this morning, and it’s working well.

By: 65r5z6

65r5z6 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:05:33 +0000

@paziek

you must downgrade to Firefox 2.9 and Firebug 1.0 for a stable system.

By: paziek

paziek — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:59:57 +0000

I have upgraded my firefox to: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; pl-PL; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7
And it still crashed when I try to bring up firebug window.

By: httpdotcom

httpdotcom — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:52:34 +0000

And yet the “The value is meaningless” bug persists (at least with FF 3.5.7, FB 1.5 and ExtJS 3.1) on any form field.

“The ‘charCode’ property of a [keydown/keyup] event should not be used. The value is meaningless.”

By: 65r5z6

65r5z6 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:50:51 +0000

Sorry – FireBug,

but FireBug fires bugs all the times.

– set of CSS attributes doesn’t work
– unable to set break points. Must reload the JS 2 or 3 times
– crashing during debug
– prototype AJAX misbehaviour (onComplete not called sometimes)

sorry – Firebug for FireFox 2.x is greate but horrible for >3.5

Andreas