239519 - Could not run Venkman Debugger 0.9.79 on Firefox 0.8.0+

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Other Applications Graveyard :: Venkman JS Debugger, defect)

Description

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040326 
Venkman: 0.9.79

Installed from http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/venkman

After restart with -venkman it shows alert dialog with:

An exception occurred while initializing, please file a bug.
BadMojo 4: JS DEbugger Service is not installer.@
<chrome://venkman/content/venkman-debugger.js> line 122 (initDebugger)

Comment 1

[jsp]

Is this fixed with the patch at bug 247507?

Also, are you sure you were running Firefox?  I'd expect to see something like
"Firefox/0.8" at the end of the user agent string.  If you're using Gentoo's
Mozilla launcher, note that it doesn't always launch what you expect it to.

Comment 2

[Tom Chiverton]

I am seeing this too Firefox 0.9.3 installed into a fresh dir just now, venkmen
installed from the 'get extensions' page.
I get the message when choosing the debugger menu item.
The Venkman window proceds to open.
The interactive session says:

Internal error dispatching command “stop”.
TypeError: console.jsds has no properties @
<chrome://venkman/content/venkman-commands.js> 1980

When pressinig the stop icon (to start debugger on next JS).

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Should this be RESOLVEd WFM in view of the passage of time, the 
release of Firefox 1.0 and Venkmann's being up to 0.9.84?

Comment 4

[Jim McMaster]

This bug has been sitting here for over a year as "unconfirmed".  I can confirm
it.  I just reinstalled Venkman 0.9.84 on 1.0.4 on Fedora Core 3.  It works on
the same version of firefox on Windows XP SP2.

Can anyone address this? 

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This bug has been sitting here for over a year as "unconfirmed".  I can confirm
> it.  I just reinstalled Venkman 0.9.84 on 1.0.4 on Fedora Core 3.  It works on
> the same version of firefox on Windows XP SP2.
> 
> Can anyone address this? 

No. Venkman says very clearly that the js debugger service is not installed.
That usually means it is right - you need a firefox build with the debugger
service. I don't know venkman well enough to either confirm this bug or respond
to the last comment asking for it to be marked WFM. However, I think you should
check if (a) the debugger is listed/excluded explicitly on about:buildconfig (FC
3 may well ship its own version of Firefox) and (b) the *latest* version of
venkman works. That'd be 0.9.85, IIRC.

Comment 6

[James Ross]

As it happens, I know for a fact that a couple of distros *do* ship it without
the JSD service by default.

Comment 7

[James Ross]

This is a non-bug. Venkman cannot work with JSD (JavaScript Debugger service). The message has been improved a bit to make this clear in another bug.