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Firefox extension weirdness with Firebug
The good and the bad of firefox.
Firefox is cool (though many times I prefer konqueror which can be snappier and take less memory). What makes firefox cooler are the vast extensions (not plugins) available for it. This gives users the chance to have the web how they want it, which can be drastically different that how large (or small) corporations want it to be for you. Adblockplus, flashblock, and del.icio.us complete all enhance my browsing experience. I've been hearing wonderful things about firebug for a while, so I tried installing it, which was pretty simple (on gentoo).
I restarted my browser and the little check in the lower right hand corner was there so I clicked it. The I double clicked it, middle clicked it, and finally right clicked it until a popup box came up. But nothing happened when I selected anything there. Wow what a cool plugin!
The bad is debugging on firefox is a pain
Perhaps the extension doesn't worked on firefox 2.0.0.1 on gentoo? I searched the bugs and the forums and didn't find anything. Then I opened Tools -> error console and noticed a swath of errors such as:
Error: _CC[cName] has no properties Source File: chrome://firebug/content/xpcom.js Line: 58 Error: FBL.ns is not a function Source File: chrome://firebug/content/sourceCache.js Line: 36 Error: FBL.ns is not a function Source File: chrome://firebug/content/insideOutBox.js Line: 36 ... Error: FBL.initialize is not a function Source File: chrome://firebug/content/chrome.js Line: 96 Error: Firebug has no properties Source File: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul Line: 1 Error: Firebug has no properties Source File: chrome://firebug/content/chrome.js Line: 778
I'm at a loss of where to start at debugging this. But the extension works on my ubuntu box (well, except for the fact that the silly DOM Inspector extension isn't installed by default). I'll post any updates I can find here.
SOLUTION!:Turns out that I needed the "mozdevelop" flag. (Found it by searching for gentoo on the firebug list)
Flash and java are examples of Firefox plugins. Adblockplus and friedns are
extensions.
I'm confused about how you installed it since you mentioned Gentoo.
Perhaps this installs it globally. I always install my extensions just
within my own browser via the normal Firefox mechanism. Go to
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/ and click "Install now". I've
never encountered the bugs you've mentioned. Stick with it, Firebug is
totally worth it!
JJ - I mentioned Gentoo only because firebug worked on ubuntu (still needed
to install the dom inspector for ubuntu which was painful (since it's
supposed to be installed by default and you don't install it via the normal
firefox install mechanism)). On both Gentoo and Ubuntu I installed firebug
the same way.... (ie there is no ebuild for firebug)
So thinking one of my other extensions might be causing problems for
firebug, I installed it as root user. (so it was the only extension).
When I try to start it I get this in the Error Console:
Error: jsdIScript has no properties Source File: file:///root/.mozilla/firefox/t5gof1bi.default/extensions/fire bug@software.joehewitt.com/components/firebug-service.js Line: 80Something is funky somewhere....
I had the same problem with a source installed ebuild ("mozilla-firefox"
rather than "mozilla-firefox-bin"). The fix for me made perfect sense (once
I'd *finally* found it).
I've had great luck with Firefox extensions. They never seemed to require
anything except an annoying restart. That said, I'm quite satisfied with
Firefox.
I am having the same problem on Ubuntu! Don't ask me how I got it because I
am all out of clues! Posted about it here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2904584