I'm sure you know this but you may not - you don't need to set break points
in Firefox you can just use

debugger;

next to the line you wish to debug at and the debugger will be triggered by
that code.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:00 AM, cahuja <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded to 1.3 (and FF 3.x)  and now this (firebug) very useful
> tool has become my worst enemy.  I am not sure if there is some
> problem with my specific installation or .....does anyone else see
> these problems ? I cleaned out and went back to FF 2.0.20.0  but the
> problems still remain the same.
>
> Here are the 2 major problems that have brought my use of the tool to
> a halt.
>  All suggestions/clues are welcomed...
>
> A)  I have many .js files that load in a particular page - the last
> one is called "cpcp.js". it does get loaded but i cannot find it in
> the "Net" list.
>       in the old version, i had to find it in the "Net" list and
> right click to "Inspect in Script window" - now it is already listed
> in the scripts pull down menu so i can switch directly to it - and
> thats good - BUT when i do switch to it...
>  - either the file only shows very few lines (first 29 out of 1200) so
> i cannot see the line i want to set a breakpoint at OR
>  - if i have been clicking around and testing stuff and then i switch
> to the script window, the lines shown do not correspond to the line
> numbers in the file at all. In fact, looking closely i see multiple
> copies of the file listed (one after the other) - for example i see
> 3421 lines shown for a file that has only 1200 or so. This is same
> regardless of whatever choice i made (static, static eval,...)
>
> B) Previously, i could type the name of a variable in the watch window
> and if it wasnt in context, it would just show as undefined, then if a
> breakpoint was hit, the watch window would update with the current
> value of the variable (assuming it came into scope), in any case the
> watched variable would always be listed, once i had typed it in.
> Now, if i enter a variable name and the program is not currently in
> any breakpoint, it simply disappears as if i never typed it.
>
> With (A) where i cannot see the line where the breakpoint is to be set
> and (B) where i cannot   enter watch variables, debugging has become
> next to impossible.
> All the new features of 1.3 look good, however the debugger has become
> quite unusable and i'm not sure where the problem is.
>
> C) An old problem that still seems to exist in 1.3 is that once
> firebug is opened and any script is being examined....even though i
> reload the browser page, Firebug does not refresh - is there a menu
> item or something to use to tell firebug to update its cache of files
> with the new ones loaded.
>  (otherwise one is having to exit the browser completely after fixing
> any particular bug....)
>
> So is there a place i can still get 1.2 so i can back down -
> everywhere i look i see only 1.3...
>
> Help.
>
> If i need to provide screen shots and or test files, ore info please
> let me know. Thanks.
>
> -chander
> PS>> yes, i did try un-installing FF, rebooted, installed FF (3 and
> 2.02) clean (i.e. no other extensions) and the problems above still
> occur
>
> >
>

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