FireBug not debugging anymore

[deanoj]

Okay guys & girls,

Not an Ext question I know, but since Ext is what I mainly use FireBug with here goes....

A few days ago FireBug decided to stop reporting JavaScript errors - even when I type complete gibberish...as you can imagine its making my debugging quite difficult.

Has anyone had this issue before, and more importantly how did you solve it?

Dean

[Animal]

Are you using 1.2.0b3?

Because that version is totally bolloxed. And you need it to run with FF3, and you can't downgrade from FF3 to 2.:(:(:(:(:(:(

[deanoj]

in fact I was using widerbug, a customised version which has a vertical panel (good for widescreen) based on version 1.0

I was about to install 1.2b3 until i read your post animal - don't think i'll bother now!

[mystix]

it was working fine in 1.2.0b2, and wham. dead in beta3. 8-|

[deanoj]

After doing a full 'clean' uninstall and reinstalling everything (ff 2.0.14, fb 1.05) it seems to be working again.

You never realise how much you depend on something until it breaks!!!

Dean

[mystix]

it's possible to actually run both FF2 and FF3 on the same machine -- i've been doing it since FF1.x and have had no problems.

try googling the forums / the web for the FF "-no-remote" config. combined with the FF profilemanager it's a cinch to manage separate setups for devel and for play.

[edit]
found this on the web:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

in short, to run different FF profiles at the same time

start the FF profilemanager from the command line (make sure no instance of FF is running) via
firefox -profilemanager
create a new profile -- let's call it "devel"
create a new shortcut / symlink which points to
/<firefox directory>/firefox -p devel -no-remote
run the shortcut / symlink

to run both FF3rc3 / FF3 final and FF2 on the same machine, install them all to separate directories, and create separate profiles + symlinks (as many as you want). if any one profile gets messed up, just create a new profile + symlink, and you're good to go.

voila. multiple firefox profiles / versions all on the same box.

enjoy =)

[edit]
finally managed to find it:
original post by @dfenwick:
http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4899

[loeppky]

Thanks Mystix. This is really helpful.

[jay@moduscreate.com]

Mystix!! Awesome.

[Zakaroonikov]

You can also grab FireFox 3 from portableapps.com and install it to a directory. If you copy the FireFoxPortable.ini file from the Other\Source directory to your main executable directory and change AllowMultipleInstances to 'true' then you are able to run it as a completely separate install.