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#1 Friday, March 20, 2009 6:47
- giorgian
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web developer toolbar disappears
hi,
i'm using firefox 3.0.7 under windows vista.
I think this issue has already been partially discussed in
http://chrispederick.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2238
the problem is: some addons make web developer toolbar disappear.
this is annoying because you have to disable all addons in order to find out the guilty one.
this time i didn't install any addon; i installed ie8 (i was using ietab, is this the problem?) and when i opened firefox, the web developer toolbar was gone.
i then deleted my profile, restarted firefox, installed web developer and firebug, restarted, and still no wd toolbar.
after some struggling, it turned out to be the skype addon: disabling it, the toolbar reappears.
my actual questions are three:
i) why this happens? is it a problem in web developer, or a problem in the other addons?
ii) are there ways to make the two addons work together?
iii) is it possible to spot the problem before installing an addon?
thanks
giorgian
p.s. thanks for web developer, great an addon it is!
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#2 Friday, March 20, 2009 10:28
- chrispederick
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Re: web developer toolbar disappears
I am still looking into the problem, but the Web Developer extension has been working fine for years so it seems that the issue most likely lies with the Skype extension.
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#3 Friday, March 20, 2009 14:50
- johnw
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Re: web developer toolbar disappears
hello chrispederick,
im in the same position...
today i used the skype upgrade and suddenly i noticed my web developer was gone..
im using it for a long time...so i hope you can get this fixed..
thanks
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#4 Thursday, March 26, 2009 13:10
- bahuvrihi
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Re: web developer toolbar disappears
I think issue has something to do with jQuery. An extension with this overlay makes the web developer toolbar disappear (and incidentally makes any toolbar/buttons in the extension disappear too).
<overlay xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">
<script type="application/x-javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"/>
</overlay>
Does web developer use Prototype? I tried to use the jQuery.noConflict() function to prevent the conflict but it didn't work. I wish I had more information but my javascript is no good and I haven't found a solution.
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#5 Thursday, March 26, 2009 13:26
- chrispederick
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Re: web developer toolbar disappears
No - I don't use any JavaScript frameworks, but let me take a look and see if I can find the conflict.
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#6 Thursday, March 26, 2009 13:31
- bahuvrihi
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Re: web developer toolbar disappears
Hmmm... the problem appears to be with jQuery. Without jQuery, a button I'm adding to my interface appears. With jQuery the button disappears, even when I have Web Developer uninstalled.
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#7 Saturday, April 25, 2009 12:16
- adamade
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Re: web developer toolbar disappears
Yes, I've run into exactly the same problem. I'm developing an addon using Jquery, and the webdev toolbar disappears. I've tried jQuery.noConflict() at the end of the jquery file, and also in the extension xul file after the jquery file has been included, but still no good. If I remove the include of the jquery file, the toolbar appears.
This is certainly a bug - maybe this thread should be moved?
Thanks for an otherwise great addon
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#8 Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:54
- obiwankamote
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Re: web developer toolbar disappears
Hi guys,
Many forums have also stated this problem with jQuery. The only fix I could find so far was downgrading it to jQuery-1.2.6 I haven't tried it with a higher version before 1.3.2 though, but it's good enough for me 
Here's where I got the info:
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-e … +extension
http://gist.github.com/112562
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#9 Tuesday, September 8, 2009 12:40
- bahuvrihi
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Re: web developer toolbar disappears
I was contacted with a solution that worked for me. In the only javascript file you include in your xul use this at the top:
window.addEventListener("load", function(event){
(function(loader){
loader.loadSubScript("chrome://{app-name}/content/jquery-1.3.2.js");
})(
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/moz/jssubscript-loader;1"].getService(
Components.interfaces.mozIJSSubScriptLoader
)
);
//Your code goes
}, false);
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#10 Monday, September 28, 2009 7:08
- Tim Dawson
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Re: web developer toolbar disappears
I'm having the same problem, but the Web Developer toolbar disappears whenever I install a new extension. I do not have Skype or JQuery. I can recover the WD toolbar by deleting three files from my profile: 'extensions.cache', 'extensions.ini' and 'extensions.rdf'. When I restart FF, the WD toolbar re-appears, and remains until I install another extension (it doesn't seem to matter which) or update an existing one.
I have tried a new profile (several times), but the same thing happens as soon as I install the first extension after WD (usually Google Toolbar). It first happened when I'd upgraded FF to 3.5.3, and WD to 1.1.8, and at much the same time also updated my AV program (F-Secure). So I didn't know which to 'blame'.
I've 'downgraded' FF to 3.0.13 and F-secure to 2009, but the problem persists. So perhaps it's Web Developer itself ? Prior to this I've used WD for years without any problems whatsoever, and it's absolutely indispensable.
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