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Firebug crashes Firefox3

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.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 18:00 and is filed under Programming. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Firebug crashes Firefox3”

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

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

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

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

    Will wait for an official release.

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

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