Cannot get FirePHP installed

[Alan Brookland]

Hi,

I've got Firefox 3.0.5 with Firebug 1.3.0 and I just installed FirePHP 0.2.1

After restarting Firefox I didn't get redirected to the step by step guide as promised by http://www.firephp.org/ and when I found the http://www.firephp.org/HQ/Install.htm it told me I didn't have FirePHP installed at the top of the page but the main body of the page congratulates me for having installed it (which I assume is just plain text and not modified by looking for the extension as the other message obviously is).

I followed the install instructions anyway and downloaded the standalone core library and followed the instructions in http://www.firephp.org/HQ/Learn.htm to create the test file and enable the Firebug Console and Net panels but I get nothing, no response headers or anything which leads me to assume that your detection script is quite correct to say I haven't got it installed even though Firefox say's that I have (and that it is enabled)

I've looked through the forum but don't see any similar problems, any ideas as to what may be causing this behaviour?

Cheers,

Alan.

[Alan Brookland]

Thought I'd fixed it but no.

Here's what I've figured so far.

FirePHP is not working at all in main Firfox window, if however I get an HTML edit pop up window from TinyMCE when editing in Joomla then FirePHP works and I can see it's icon in Firebug and your site tells me it's installed.

This has only happened once though because every other time I've clicked on the edit HTML button in TinyMCE I don't get the pop up unless I disable FirePHP.

Cheers,

Alan.

[Christoph Dorn]

I am running Firefox 3.0.5 with Firebug 1.3.0 and FirePHP 0.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 without any problems using the 0.2.1 FirePHPCore library on the server.

What OS are you on?

To see what is going on, please check the following:

1) Go to http://www.firephp.org/
2) Ensure the Firebug Console and Net panels are enabled for this domain
3) Refresh your browser
4) Assuming no logging messages are appearing, go to the Net panel, look for the page request, expand it and look for "FirePHP/0.2.1" in the User-Agent request header.
5) Look at the response headers and look for headers starting with "X-FirePHP-Data-"

What are you getting?

[Alan Brookland]

I'm running Windows XP Professional SP3.

I enabled FirePHP and I went to http://www.firephp.org/ and the Firebug icon bottom right was grey and I couldn't open the Firebug window, it wouldn't appear either within the Firefox window or a new window.

I disabled FirePHP and restarted Firefox and then the Firebug icon was in colour again and I could open it's window. I enabled the console and net panels and then re-enabled FirePHP. After restarting Firefox again the icon was again grey and again I couldn't open it's window.

However I then went to the back end of a Joomla site and by previewing a content item I got a popup preview window which is another Firfox window but without the menus and toolbars, only a non editable address bar.

Within this pop up window I could open the Firebug window and there I could see the little blue FirePHP icon next to the Firebug icon top left of window and by clicking on that I got the menu and clicked on "FirePHP Headquarters" which opened http://www.firephp.org/ in a new tab in the pop up window and I got the logging messages.

Which led me to think maybe it's a compatibility issue with a toolbar, so after disabling and re-enabling my tool bars I've tracked it down to Yahoo Toolbar 1.6.2.20080910 which I don't even use but I think was installed as an "added extra" by Google Chrome.

So problem solved - I've no need of the yahoo toolbar and am happy to live without it.

Thanks for your help and I look forward to many happy hours debugging my code that much easier with your addon.

Cheers,

Alan.

[Christoph Dorn]

Thanks for narrowing this down!

I have added a ticket to see if I can find a work-around: http://code.google.com/p/firephp/issues/detail?id=84

[Christoph Dorn]

Would you be able to test if this is still an issue with the latest Yahoo Toolbar (1.6.6)?