It was the Friendly Bug add-on causing the problem. I guess it was discontinued because it was incompatible. However, I have the Incompatibility checker add-on and it didn't catch it. Apparently, other people were getting the same grey circle I was getting.
Thank you both for your help. On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 10:25:29 PM UTC-7, Sebastian Zartner wrote: > > What Honza meant is to give a precise test case, not copy his steps. > > E.g. for me the infotips are working when I do the following: > > 1. Open Firebug on https://www.getfirebug.com/ > 2. Switch to the *HTML* panel and there to the *Style* side panel > 3. Hover url("/img/bg-grad.jpg") of the background property in the > bodyrule inside the > *Style* side panel > > => The preview of https://www.getfirebug.com/img/bg-grad.jpg is shown in > an infotip. > Please make sure it's not another extension that is causing your problem. > To do so deactivate all other extensions. Then check if the image previews > are working. If yes, enable each of the other extensions one by one and > check everytime if the previews are working again. > > Sebastian > > On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:12:38 PM UTC+2, Shan G wrote: >> >> Yes, these are the steps I take: >> >> 1) Load FireFox >> 2) Open Firebug, Select the STYLE panel >> 3) Inspect #image element on the page >> 4) get small empty circle instead of image or hex code preview >> >> I don't know what the last version of FireBug was before the last update, >> all I know is that it worked in that version but not in this one. >> >> How do I fix this? >> >> On Thursday, September 20, 2012 11:03:22 PM UTC-7, Jan Honza Odvarko >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 21, 3:16 am, Shan G <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > In the last version of FireBug before the latest update >>> By the last version, do you mean Firebug 1.10.3? >>> >>> > , whenever you >>> > hovered over a hex code or an image link, you'd get a little preview >>> of it. >>> > But now, I have a small blank circle. >>> Can you please provide detailed steps how to see the problem? >>> >>> Something like: >>> >>> 1) Load www.google.com >>> 2) Open Firebug, Select the HTML panel >>> 3) Inspect #image element on the page >>> 4) ... >>> >>> --- >>> >>> I quickly tried infotips (the little preview) in the Net, >>> CSS and Style panel and it seems to be working. >>> >>> Honza >>> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebug
