Sounds like something the Fx people should implement... at least for
3.5+. (That said, I'm still watching a bug report that was filed in
2001, so I know that it can take a while...)


BTW: If you still don't see it in Fx3.0.8, you might just try hitting
reload... not seeing totally baffles me...

On Apr 19, 9:57 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok so here is how break on Errors works. The Firefox engine javascript
> debug API (jsd) has a function "onError" that is called for all
> Javascript errors. If the Firebug implementation of this function
> returns 'true', that's it, the js processing continues.  If Firebug
> returns "false", then Firefox jsd is supposed to call "onDebug" next.
> Break on Errors is a flag that causes Firebug's implementation of
> onError to return 'false'.
>
> When I trace the execution of Firebug 1.4 on FF 3.1b3 for the
> referenced page with BreakOnErrors true, I see the messages from
> onError, but not from onDebug.  So apparently FF goes wander off
> rather than calling us back.
>
> The Firebug text case for Error processing also fails FF3.1b4; it also
> prints messages from onError then stops.
>
> (I was tempted to use onError/onDebug to improve Firebug's error
> reporting. onError does not know what window triggered it (oy), but
> onDebug does. So the combo would allow Firebug to more correctly
> report at least javascript errors. Unfortunately exceptions that are
> caught also pass through this code).
>
> jjb
>
> On Apr 19, 9:32 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > For me:
> > On WinXP FF 3.0.8, break on errors works on that page.
> > On WnXP FF 3.1b3, FF stops responding.
>
> > jjb
>
> > On Apr 19, 10:43 am, Steven Roussey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Forgot example:
>
> > >http://demo.swfupload.org/v220/applicationdemo/index.php
>
> > > On Apr 19, 10:38 am, Steven Roussey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Am I the only one that sees this corrupt all of Firefox (on every
> > > > try). I've even see it black out the chrome sometimes.
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