502708 - Jetpack not recognizing firebug 1.4.0b5

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Labs :: Jetpack Prototype, defect)

Description

[danb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: 0.2.1

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-jetpack

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install firebug 1.4.0b5
2.try to log to console from in a jetpack
3.see no logs
Actual Results:  
no logs

Comment 1

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

Changing the bug title to better reflect what's going on. It's not just debugging output. On the "develop" screen, Jetpack says that I don't have it installed or enabled, but it is.

From the mailing list, people say downgrading to 1.4.0b4 makes it work.

Comment 2

[danb]

confirmed problem with 1.4.0b7 as well.

Comment 3

[Jason Kleinberg]

In the Tutorial, Chapter 1, on the third section of code (the one where clicking on "Boom!" in the status bar should display the open tabs), I get this error when it is trying to write out to the console:

parent.getAttribute is not a function
    let mousethrough = parent.getAttribute("mousethrough");
file:///Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/modules/WindowDraggingUtils.jsm
Line 58

Comment 4

[Morgan 'ARR!' Allen]

To get current versions of Firebug working to go the Options menu from either
1) the bug icon in the opened console
2) Tools -> Firebug -> Options
and uncheck "Activate Same Origin on URLs"

The code fails because after 1.4b4 and 1.5X.0a06 introduced this Same Origin code.
convertToURIKey does a check on the URL (I am not sure what exactly it is doing) but line 3446 in firebug.js checks .host on the nsIRUI returned from the original makeURI which isn't defined for "about:jetpack". There is even an exception for "about:blank" a couple line up.
Posting this to Firebug also.

Comment 5

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

I've issued a temporary fix for this that forces-off the "Activate Same Origin on URLs" feature for now:

  http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/jetpack/rev/dd8eed694aa3

As the changelog says though, it's only temporary--we're talking to the Firebug team now about adding tests to Firebug's test suite that ensure that Firebug will always work with Jetpack going forward.

Comment 6

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

Actually, I'm going to close this bug and make a new bug for the larger issue of making tests for Firebug.  See bug 506122.