Firebug 1.2 works with Firefox 3 Beta 5

Author: Jimmy

9 Apr

After installing Firefox 3 Beta 5, I found Firebug did not work properly and that led me to the 1.2 branch of this great add-on, in alpha at this time. This build can chuck out some issues but not all. However, the first beta of this branch is expected to come out soon and it should work well with the latest release of Firefox 3.

Some interesting new features you can see in version 1.2 are:

Programmatically disable firebug log from JavaScript
Showing HTTP Status code on NET response
“Break on next” feature for debugging
Improve network monitor to include server-side processing time
New console API

Please find the latest (beta) release here.

Notice: As office Firebug site is down at this time due to a major data center caught on fire (which is where getfirebug.com is hosted ), please download firebug 1.2.0a30X here — it works with Firefox 3 RC2.

Update: Firebug 1.2.0b3 (beta 3 version which works with Firefox 3.0 final) can be installed from Mozilla’s add-on site now.

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9 Responses for "Firebug 1.2 works with Firefox 3 Beta 5"

EaStErDoM April 21st, 2008 at 1:55 am 1

Erm ja, and how do you install that svn Repos ?

I tried to checkout and run the makexpi, but now i recognized that its a Mac-Skript, which gives me kind of funny errors (doesn’t find its own path) on Linux.

How can I install that?
Jimmy April 21st, 2008 at 2:04 am 2

You can install FB 1.2 directly with this link: http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.2/firebug-1.2.0a20X.xpi

Cheers
Valeriu Palos April 23rd, 2008 at 1:03 am 3

I think the right one is this: http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.2/firebug-1.2.0a22X.xpi
Mark April 26th, 2008 at 1:20 pm 4

Is it me or is the getfirebug site broken.
Marcus Bointon April 27th, 2008 at 6:17 am 5

I’ve got 1.2.0a22X and it does work, though I have some problems with the in-window panel resizing - you can only make it smaller, never bigger, with the result that it’s now unusable unless I pop it open in a separate window!
I was finding FF3b5 very unstable (simply crashing spontaneously when idle) so I’ve switched back to 2 for now, which is fine apart form the speed.
Jimmy April 28th, 2008 at 1:29 am 6

@Marcus: I’ve been using FFb5 (on Windows 2003 x64) since it was released and found no problem like what you describe yet.

However, Firebug 1.2 is just in Alpha so that many issues are being reported.
Friend May 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pm 7

Works fine on Ubuntu 8.04 Thanks for note
sapta May 15th, 2008 at 9:42 pm 8

After installing Firebug 1.2 works with Firefox 3 Beta 5 (Windows XP SP 2) I often got error box like this : “firefox.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience”
pascal July 30th, 2008 at 2:26 am 9

I’m gonna try this version now. I tried a version 1.2 before but the breakpoints would not work.

http://www.codesplunk.com/?s=c
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