Thanks for your reply, now I'm setting breakpoints and then reloading
without any changes, but my page does have problems, that might be why
no breakpoint happens. I did select "break on all errors", but I don't
get a breakpoint from that, even when the Javascript exception I'm
chasing happens. But the other developer had the same (no break on a
breakpoint) problem with a page that was working, so I'm not sure that
an error on the page is the essence of the problem. I can try and
create a test case for this.

Lee

On Mar 24, 11:46 am, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe it will help if I explain that when you reload a web page (I
> guess that is what you mean by 'refresh'), the window object in the
> current page and all of the page contents are deleted by Firefox.
> These are all gone as are the compilation results that contain the
> breakpoints. Then a new page is created with a new window object and
> the javascript is all recompiled. Then firebug needs to reset the
> breakpoints. It does this by comparing the URLs of compilation results
> to a table of breakpoints it has stored based on user actions. This
> table is [url, linenumber]. When it can, Firebug resets the
> breakpoints for any matching [url,linenumber] it finds.
>
> From this you can notice some consequences. If the url changes or does
> not match for some reason or the line number changes or Firebug
> encounters a problem anywhere in the processing of a new page, then
> the breakpoint will not be set. Unfortunately there are lots of ways
> for this to happen so only by creating a test case can I tell you what
> happened in you case.
>
> jjb
>
> On Mar 24, 8:18 am, Lee Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Just FYI, I should mention that the first breakpoint set doesn't bring
> > up the debugger when the browser is refreshed.
>
> > Now another developer duplicated this problem, and also discovered
> > that setting a breakpoint on a Javascript function that runs when you
> > click a button works (this works for me too), only refreshing the
> > browser doesn't seem to catch breakpoints.
>
> > Lee
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