Firebug crashes Firefox3
Posted: May 12th, 2008 | Filed under: Programming | Tags: crash, firebug, firefox | 3 Comments »I’m a huge fan of Firebug — the top notch JavaScript / CSS debugging plug-in for Firefox — but recently it became completely unusable to me.
With the release of Ubuntu 8.04 the main browser now is Firefox 3 that comes as the default. Official Firebug doesn’t work with FF3, but there’s a development branch that does, well kind of. There are many sharp corners and rough edges in this latest development, but it was fantastic. Several days away from the installation I noticed my FF3 to begin crashing every now and then.
Today I finally had to remove the extension since the browser could crash 2-5 times a minute. I literally spent half a day trying to work on the site for my client. That’s unaffordable luxury.
For now I’ll be using the excellent Web Developer extension (ah, I miss that sexy JavaScript console of Firebug), but will be monitoring the Firebug development progress with a hope to get back to it soon.
The Ruby on Rails addict, industrial photographer and amateur electronic music composer. In the mean time I build great web applications, contribute to OSS and help AVAAZ to save Great Barrier Reef.
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Have fun!
Yeah, exactly this version crashed my Firefox every 20 seconds.
No fun at all.
Will wait for an official release.
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