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Firefox rendering gone WRONG - see something really weird...

Hey guys I have the following is really weird. Bassically when I view the source of the page everything looks fine but the page looks all wrong. So I decided to take a look at the source using firebug and firebug shows a very different story. But if I refresh the page the page looks fine and the source and firebug match up. See below ...

Why is console.log statements not appearing in my FireBug console anymore?

I'm using FF 3.6 and FireBug 1.5.0 my console.log statements are no longer appearing in my firebug console. is anyone else experiencing this? is there a setting somewhere that got switched that I don't know about? ...

Emulate Firebug's ability to smoothly open panes across tabs in Firefox extension

Firebug, from what I can tell, uses one element to display its console. Somehow, it hides and displays the panel in a very smooth fashion when users switch tabs. My goal is to emulate this behavior in my own Firefox extension. For instance, let's say you open three tabs, and Firebug is only opened on the first tab. If you quickly swi...

ajax problem - 200 OK in firebug but red message with no response body

Hi guys, I have small ajax problem related to cross domain as i see it. On localmachine i created html example with some ajax: in registration text field user types 'username', on every keystroke ajax sends it to local Tomcat, where servlet checks if that username is already used and sends 'taken' reponse back. No problem on localho...

How to debug CSS with Firebug for an element that only appears when clicked?

I want to debug the CSS for a DHTML menu, but the element I want to debug is a submenu, so it only appears when the top element in the menu is clicked. So I can't use that button on Firebug that shows the CSS for the next element clicked, because when I click on the top menu item it will show the CSS for that element, not its child, and...

How to debug scripts in Firebug?

Hello, I could never view a script correctly in Firebug,every one of them is displayed in one line.Like shown on the image below: How do I view it correctly so I could debug it? Thank you in advance! ...

Firebug 1.5 showing 200 Aborted for Ajax requests

When I'm using Firebug 1.5, I'm getting 200 ABORTED errors on certain ajax requests. You can see this happen on this demo page by typing into the textfield. The functionality of the site seems to work just fine even with these errors. Is it safe to simply ignore these errors? This wicket mailing list thread seems to indicate that the ...

Debug function in opener when called from child page using Firebug

Hello all, I have a function in a parent page that opens another page in a child window. In the same parent I have a 'kind of' callback function that I am calling via window.opener.MyFunction() before closing the child window. It works, but when using Firebug and placing a breakpoint in the 'callback' in the parent Firebug steps throug...

How to use firebug when debugging Javascript entailing focus/blur event handling

I'm trying to use Firebug to debug some Javascript that entails blur and focus event handling, specifically some auto-complete/look-ahead functionality. The issue is that, merely by clicking on the various tabs within Firebug, such as "Console", "Script", "DOM", etcetera, the blur() event in my application is being fired, and then the f...

how to see what javascript code is currently executing?

with firebug i only knows how to see what ajax-files are called. i have a jquery mouse click event handler bounded to a link element. is it possible to see what javascript code is used when clicking on an element in case you forgot if you got an event handler or other javascript code coupled to it? ...

Fiddler vs Firefox w/ Firebug

Fiddler does look interesting and I've seen people recommending it as a good debugging tool but a quick runthrough I don't see anything all that great that we dont already have in Firebug. What can Fiddler do that Firebug cannot? Conversly what can Firebug do that Fiddler cannot? ...

Domplate system in Firebug - how to use 'insertRow' method?

how to use "insertRow" method from domplate template system to insert data to table? i cant get this to work.. ...

How to debug web workers

I have been working with web workers in HTML 5 and am looking for ways to debug them. Ideally something like the firebug or chrome debuggers. Does anyone have any good solution to this. with no access to the console or DOM its kind of hard to debug iffy code ...

Firebug returning constant nsLoginManager error

I'm working on a project, and Firebug keeps on reporting a nsLoginManager error (which has nothing to do with my project. It is disconcerting to see "3 errors" in the status bar on my browser only to open it up and see it's the effing nsloginmanager error message... AGAIN. Here is the error: [Exception... "Component returned failure...

Detect what javascript function is changing a page element on load?

Hey! I have lots of jquery that is running on page load and it's causing one of my elements to disappear (making it style=display:none;). I'm guessing the jquery hide() function is being applied to this element by mistake, but I can't find out which statement is causing it. Is there any javascript,firebug,etc function or tool that will ...

JavaScript development - bookmarking lines of code?

Hi, I constantly find myself rewriting the same lines of code in the Firebug console to test my application. The application uses UI so much that I don't think unit tests are the solution here? How could I quickly run lines of JavaScript code without typing them again and again? ...

firebug console error

Hello Stack Overflow, I try to learn to use Firebug (debug). I try to run "bennadel Firebug debug example" . URL SCRIPT http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1459-FireBug-s-Console-dir-vs-DOM-Tab.htm. With: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729). Firebug 1.5.2. I run " FireB...

Can I see in firebug profiler funcitons list in order those call?

Can I see in firebug profiler funcitons list in order those call? Do you may be know another tools for this? ...

How to generate the "computed" CSS for an arbitrary HTML code snippet

I am starting work on a project to be able to grab an arbitrary HTML snippet (e.g. all code within a <div></div> block) and generate the minimal CSS necessary to render the snippet on a blank page while maintaining the same visual styling it has on the originating web page. My sense is that all of the heavy lifting for this function can...

Double Ahah GET request when Firebug Enabled

Hi folks, Strange issue, when Firebug is enabled (and only then) does my Javascript start making double GET request (AHAH) at what appears to be random. The result of this double call is that the code returned from the server (PHP generated Google Map / Javascript) is spat out on screen. This issue does not occur in any other browsers...