Firebug 1.4 Activation Model

I use Gentoo Linux with KDE for my development box at my day job. Gentoo is pretty good about keeping their package repository as close to matching what’s stable upstream as they can, but Firefox 3.5.x took a good long while to be marked stable and consequently, I was running Firebug 1.3 until just recently.

Upon upgrading, I spent a couple days being pretty annoyed by it’s new “simplified” activation model.  Each dev has a subdomain for a development site, but our issue tracker and wiki is also on a subdomain causing firebug to automatically activate itself for the wiki or tracker anytime I had activated it for a development site. My google-fu must have been weak because I couldn’t find a good solution to the problem. Only frustrated people.

I stumbled upon the answer today: Activate Same Origin URLs under Tools > Firebug > Options. Unchecking it restored my sanity.

January 8, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized

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  1. Chuck Aksamit on January 11th, 2010 11:03 am

    Nice find! I run into the same issue developing locally and having my localhost project along with my localhost phpmyadmin open in the same window.

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