Mozilla Hacks

Firebug for Firefox5/Aurora? Get version 1.8!

By Chris Heilmann

Posted on May 25, 2011 in Firebug and Firefox

Just a quick tip that if you are a developer and you lately upgraded Firefox4 to Firefox5 (or why not give Aurora a try?) it tells you that Firebug is not compatible and can’t find an upgrade.

However, there is a compatible version of Firebug (v1.8) available for you: get it here.

Now you can get the latest Firefox goodness and still debug your code.

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7 comments

  1. Kevin Dangoor

    I just heard earlier today that Firebug 1.7.1 (the current release on AMO) is compatible with Firefox 5.

    (Note that Aurora is Firefox 6 now and there is a crashing bug affecting Firebug on the new Aurora. This bug is already fixed but needs to be merged into Aurora builds.)

    May 26th, 2011 at 12:00

  2. Art

    how to do that?..

    Can you explain? thank you so much..

    July 14th, 2011 at 02:17

  3. Cal

    Thanks! Helps a lot.

    August 2nd, 2011 at 18:31

  4. Marvin Froeder

    No joy with aurora, it says it isn’t compatible 7.0a2. Tried 1.8.0 to 1.8.1

    August 12th, 2011 at 10:47

  5. Kevin Dangoor

    I believe Honza told me that Firebug 1.9 is needed for Firefox 7.

    http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.9/

    August 12th, 2011 at 20:53

  6. Ref

    yep i just tried and firebug 1.9 from the link Kevin gave is working fine on aurora

    thanks for sharing mate!

    August 16th, 2011 at 02:37

  7. Diptiranjan

    Hi ,

    Can anyone tell me is mozilla firefox 6 supports firebug and YSlow Add-On .

    September 9th, 2011 at 07:55

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