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Firebug bookmarklet no longer functions when pointed to firebug.com #6

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DanRathbun opened this issue Jul 5, 2018 · 5 comments
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Firebug bookmarklet no longer functions when pointed to firebug.com #6

DanRathbun opened this issue Jul 5, 2018 · 5 comments
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DanRathbun commented Jul 5, 2018 •
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Debugging page ...

A Firebug bookmarklet no longer functions when pointed to firebug.com.

They have shut down all access to firebug from the website, as the project was closed down in favor of merging it into Firefox.

Therefore, a developer must go to GitHub and get Firebug Lite from it's repo and install it locally, and point the bookmarklet to their local Firebug folder.

https://github.com/firebug/firebug-lite

P.S. - I've experienced that the "-lite-dev" edition seems to work for UI::WebDialog on MS Windows when the other editions (-lite, -lite-beta, -lite-debug) don't.

BUT, it only works for me when it is loaded from the <HEAD> element of the webpage ...

  <script src="../path/to/firebug/dev/firebug-lite-dev.js">
    {
        overrideConsole: false,
        startInNewWindow: true,
        startOpened: true,
        enableTrace: true
    }
  </script>

I tried to get the bookmarklet to work, ... but it would not, so I stuck with the <SCRIPT> element in the <HEAD> of the HTML page.
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thomthom commented Jul 9, 2018

Ah! Good to know! I ran into this issue myself the other day recently. I thought FireBug was completely dead. Didn't look any further. But if it can still be obtained and used from GitHub then that's great news for debugging the older WebDialogs.

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DanRathbun commented Jul 14, 2018 •
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Oh,.. I also had to track down the line (in one of the files) that still pointed to the online URL for the skin, and change it to the local path to the same skin.

"firebug-lite-dev.js" : line 19 or so ...

var bookmarkletSkinURL = "file:///../skin/xp/";
//var bookmarkletSkinURL = "https://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/latest/skin/xp/"; // stable

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Note that I'm still getting alot of Firebug load errors where it will not load 1 out every 5 times. Often there are jQuery JS errors associated with the mis-loading.

Firebug also refuses to remember it's window size and locations even though it is supposed to.

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Also, every time loaded, I get the MSIE popup that "Internet Explorer has blocked execution of scripts and ActiveX controls on this page ..." (annoying, but it will usually disappear on it's own after a minute or so.)

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Note that I'm still getting alot of Firebug load errors where it will not load 1 out every 5 times. Often there are jQuery JS errors associated with the mis-loading.

I had been using the latest JQuery 3.3.1, but I down versioned to 3.3.0 and the JS errors have diminished drastically.

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