My sequence of steps would be like this: 1. Open Firefox 3.6, Firebug 1.5.2 installed. 2. Open 5 tabs: Google (tab 1), our companies' Client management software (tab 2), and let's say 3 other tabs of websites I'm working on (tabs 3-5), but this can be any number of tabs. 3, Switch to tab 3, first website I'm working on 4. Right click a <div>, "Inspect Element" 5. Firebug opens with the page's HTML grayed out, nothing can be inspected, it is caching the HTML from whatever tab was opened before this one (someone above mentioned it was the Firebug icon that was grayed out, my problem is in the HTML in the Firebug pane being grayed out, not the actual icon in the status bar) 6. Refresh the page 7. Manually open Firebug via the Bug icon on the status bar 8. Click the "Inspect Element" button 9. Choose the same <div>, it works fine. 10. Switch to tab 4, second website I'm working on 11. Right click a <div>, "Inspect Element" 12. Firebug opens with the previous tabs' HTML grayed out, nothing can be inspected 13. Refresh the page 14. Manually open Firebug via the Bug icon on the status bar 15. Click the "Inspect Element" button 16. Choose the same <div>, it works fine. 17. Repeat for any other tab I switch to, I can repeat this same behavior all day.
I've used the same one step "Right click -> Inspect Element" process forever, it's only started behaving this way recently. I should also mention (as others have tried) that switching back to Firebug 1.4.5 fixes this problem completely. My normal routine works fine again. On Mar 2, 3:02 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 2, 11:27 am, johnjust <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Firebug 1.5.2 wasn't working for me, using Firefox 3.6 on Windows XP. > > I also have a Linux laptop with the most up-to-date Firefox from the > > Ubuntu repositories (not sure exactly what version, don't have it with > > me), as well as the most up-to-date Firebug, but I don't recall this > > problem happening there. > > > I was having problems with the right click -> "Inspect Element" > > option, it looked like it was caching other tabs' HTML. > > > I normally have multiple tabs open, with multiple Firebug panes. I > > would switch to a tab to inspect something, and the HTML that appeared > > would be grayed out, I would have to refresh the page, click the > > Firebug button, click "Inspect Element", then choose an element to get > > it to work. Then, I would switch to another tab, open Firebug with > > the right click -> "Inspect Element", and the HTML would be grayed out > > again, but it would be the HTML from the previous tab. Running > > through that same process made it work again, and the next tab would > > then have that previous tabs' HTML grayed out. > > > Upgrading to 1.6X.0a5 does not fix the problem, but it behaves a > > little differently. Instead of graying out the HTML, it actually does > > generate the HTML for a second, then it flashes back to the inspected > > HTML from the previous tab. Refreshing the page again fixes it. > > > If you need any additional info, let me know. > > Yes, what we need is a precise numbered sequence of steps and URLs > like this: > 1. openhttp://getfirebug.com > 2. open Firebug, reload > 3. Cntrl-T new tab opens, loadhttp://groups.google.com/group/firebug/ > 4. open Firebug reload > 5. ? > 3. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
