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Firebug crashes Firefox3

Posted: May 12th, 2008 | Filed under: Programming | Tags: , , | 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.

3 Comments

  1. 1 Andrew Dashin said at 08:46 on May 14th, 2008:

    http://fireclipse.xucia.com/#Downloads
    Have fun! :)

  2. 2 Aleksey Gureiev said at 09:03 on May 14th, 2008:

    Yeah, exactly this version crashed my Firefox every 20 seconds. :) No fun at all.

    Will wait for an official release.

  3. 3 Firebug works on Firefox 3 now said at 14:46 on July 30th, 2008:

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