439638 - DOM Inspector broken - shows no DOM Nodes and other problems

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Other Applications :: DOM Inspector, defect)

Description

[Philip Harvey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

I just installed DOM Inspector 2.0.0 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6622). Unfortunately it looks quite broken. 

The buttons to inspect the pointed-to element, and fine a node with particular id do nothing. 

Also, the "DOM Nodes" pane is always blank (although it does successfully show Stylesheets, Javascript objects etc).

I did previously have other versions of Firefox installed - not sure if this is relevant.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download firefox
2. Download DOM Inspector 2.0.0
3. Open DOM Inspector. 
Actual Results:  
Observe the lack of DOM Nodes.

Expected Results:  
DOM Nodes showing.

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

This works for me - do you have any other add-ons installed?

Comment 2

[Philip Harvey]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This works for me - do you have any other add-ons installed?
> 

Hi, I've got the following installed but I've disabled them all in an attempt to fix the problem: adblock plus, firebug, greasemonkey, ie tab, tamper data, yslow.

I'm pretty sure DOM Inspector has never worked for me, even when I was running Firefox 2.x.

Is there an internal config file I can check or clean up?

Comment 3

[ohloloo]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
XP home SP2
add-ons : Cacheviewer 0.4.7.1, DictionnarySearch 3.0.0, DownloadHelper 3.0.4, FireBug 1.2.0b3, FireFTP 0.99.1, WizzRSS 3.0.0.0

Hi, I've exactly the same prob as Philip Harvey, namely the DOM nodes pane is blank

PLUS:
1) when I return back to "DOM nodes" from another pane (ie scripts, styelsheets), the DOM nodes pane label is not refreshed

2) in "accessible trees" pane when pointer passes over any row, the names in column "node names" vanish

3) sometimes I must go to others panes before "stylesheets" pane could display successfully.

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when previuosly using built-in DOMI with FF2 everything was working correctly

Comment 4

[Michael Bruck]

This seems to be due to old left-over files in the installation directory. I got rid of the problem as follows

1. uninstalled the DOM Inspector
2. checked Program Files\Mozilla Firefox for all files older than 2008-01-01
3. removed anything that wasn't obviously related to an older plugin

Complete list of what I removed:

2003-01-14  18:10               660 nsI4xScriptablePluginVirtools.xpt
2004-11-07  13:57                46 installed-extensions-processed.txt
2004-12-01  17:50           139.264 npvirtools.dll
2004-12-02  08:40             1.107 Extensions.rdf
2005-09-15  18:26             4.832 inspector-cmdline.js
2005-09-15  18:26            44.153 inspector.dll
2005-09-15  18:26           562.372 inspector.jar
2005-09-15  18:26             2.135 inspector.js
2005-09-15  18:26             2.980 inspector.xpt
2005-09-15  18:26             1.779 platform-forms.css
2005-09-15  18:26               390 search-registry.rdf
2005-09-15  18:26             3.411 viewer-registry.rdf
2005-10-23  23:48                 0 initdebug.nfo
2005-12-02  00:20                24 components.ini
2005-12-02  00:20                24 defaults.ini
2006-08-07  04:51           150.912 fullsoft.dll
2006-09-16  23:34             8.822 qfaservices.dll
2007-04-02  16:42                 0 .autoreg
2007-04-24  11:36         1.452.416 npLegitCheckPlugin.dll
2007-05-31  08:35            13.058 removed-files
2008-07-05  00:26    <DIR>          inspector

Some of these are obviously obsolete plugins that should be unrelated to the problem but I listed everything I removed for completeness.

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

WORKSFORME per comment 4

Comment 6

[ohloloo]

(In reply to comment #4)

works for me to

*BUT* there is still a problem in pane "accessible tree" :
when flying over a row, the name of a node in column "node name" 
is still being cleared