Firefox 3 and Firebug in Ubuntu 8.04

May 15th, 2008

I was pretty excited to upgrade to Firefox 3 beta 5, but I knew I could expect some extensions to crap out on me for a while before they were updated by their maintainers.  I threw caution to the wind and updated Ubuntu.  “Eek!” I cried, “no Firebug!”  Firebug is one of my indispensible front-end tools.  I love it (and depend on it!).  So, I looked around the internets a bit, and decided to try the 1.1 beta.  No luck.  Then I learned that there’s an Ubuntu package for firebug.  Here’s what to do:

  1. upgrade to Firefox 3 (you’ve probably already done that part!)
  2. uninstall your current (broken) Firebug from the Tools > Add-Ons window
  3. run “sudo apt-get install firebug” from the command line

That should do it.

Posted by Michael Hellein Filed in Firefox, Linux, Ubuntu
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