Firebug 2.0 stopped showing internal data for all jQuery versions

[pocesar]

Firebug 2.0 stopped showing internal data for all jQuery versions, tested with 1.11 and 2.1.1, in the HTML tab.

[tobigit]

FireQuery stopped working also in my browser. No DOM-Bindings are shown anymore.

Firefox: 30.0
Firebug: 2.0.1
FireQuery: 1.4.1

[atwright147]

I believe this is a duplicate of issue #34

[tobigit]

No, the jQuery version is not the problem. We are using jQuery 1.10.2 which works fine with Firequery 1.41. a long time.

I did a downgrade of Firebug to 1.12.8 yesterday and now FireQuery works fine again. DOM-bindings are shown correctly!

FireQuery stopps working with Firebug 2.x

[darwin]

I assume format of tree-view in Firebug changed. I didn't have time to really install Firebug 2.0 and test my extensions there.

I'm still planning on doing that, but it does not have that big priority for me. Haven't been doing any serious webdev for a while.

[KODerFunk]

Fix it please.

[5im-0n]

👍

[pocesar]

it broke angular + ui-router + jquery 2.1.1 on page, this lack of support is dangerous.
angular-ui/ui-router#1104

[mhulse]

I'm still planning on doing that, but it does not have that big priority for me. Haven't been doing any serious webdev for a while.

This was a really useful plugin for jquery dev. Anyone out there able to help @darwin with a PR on this issue?

[darwin]

Hi again,

I think it is the time to face sad truth and call FireQuery unsupported software from my side.

The problem is that I don't have motivation to spend time on maintaining it. I hate broken software, but I have other projects which pay my bills and require constant maintenance (TotalFinder, TotalTerminal, etc.). I don't do heavy jQuery development anymore. And for my current web development tasks I switched completely to Chrome+Web Inspector.

Anyone want to step up and take this project?

[mhulse]

@darwin Totally understandable. I completely sympathize. I wish I knew enough to take this over, or, at least help maintain.

Dumb question: What's the main programming language used to create the FireQuery plugin?

Speaking of Chrome, are there tools, in that browser, that do the same job as FireQuery?

[darwin]

Firefox addons are written in javascript. FireQuery is quite ugly and convoluted piece of code:
https://github.com/binaryage/firequery/blob/master/firefox/chrome/content/firequery.js

I don't know about anything similar for Chrome.

[mhulse]

Firefox addons are written in javascript. FireQuery is quite ugly and convoluted piece of code:
https://github.com/binaryage/firequery/blob/master/firefox/chrome/content/firequery.js

Interesting! I'll take a closer look. 👍

I wonder what changed in Firebug that broke FireQuery? Part of me wonders if there's a simple fix.

What do you use to debug when developing a plugin? Might be interesting to turn on debug to see where/why Firequery isn't working. There's got to be some sort of API change that may (or may not be) easy to fix?

Anyway, thanks for the replies @darwin, much appreciated.

[darwin]

I don't know what broke it. FireQuery has to adapt three moving parts: jQuery internals, Firefox addons system and Firebug code. All three interfaces have been evolving over last 5 years. My bet is that this time something broke because of jQuery re-implementation of some internal $.data related code or Firebug changed the way how to render HTML panel.

For debugging I used debug prints, because good debuggers were not available for Mozilla platform at the time. Even setting up an add-ons development environment is quite challenging. Maybe things improved from last year - I saw quite active development of Firefox itself. You should find relevant docs here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons

my $.02

[mhulse]

Interesting! Thanks for the feedback/link @darwin. If I find the free time I may look into this (though, I can totally relate to your time/money/pay the bills statement/sentiment).

[beam2web]

With attr() it seems to work partially, but for objects I'm not sure if that was possible in the past

var $input = $('#input'); // original <input id="input" type="text" />

$input
    .data('first', 'true')
    .data('second', {foo: 16, bar: "something"})
    .attr('data-third', 'true')
    .attr('data-fourth', {first: 16, last: "this is the last"});

// output <input id="input" type="text" data-third="true" data-fourth="[object Object]">

tested with: Firefox 32.0.2, Firebug 2.0.4, FireQuery 1.4.1, jQuery 1.10.2

[tobigit]

Has anybody a solution meanwhile? This plugin is very important for me.
Or has anybody a hint for me how i can debug this extension?

[tobigit]

Hi kbaniszack!
With your solution the DOM-bindings are shown only on the DOM-Element "html" under firebug 2.0.6. This is a good news so far. The Plugin works under firebug 2.x
Maybe it is only a trifle to get the rest working?! ;-)

[ms-berry]

it seems to be problem with apply() function in jQuery.__FireQueryShared.removeData_originalReplacedByFireQuery
jQuery.__FireQueryShared.data_originalReplacedByFireQuery
i quickfix this and seems to work now, dont have time for more investigation at the moment:)
full /chorome/content/firequery.js here:
http://pastebin.com/N6gArmyP

[FlashJunior]

Any update?

[FlashJunior]

Any plans to fix this?

[darwin]

No immediate plans for update. I don't use Firefox&Firebug for my web development. Also I don't use jQuery anymore.

Sorry guys. You have to downgrade or fix it yourself.

[janodvarko]

New version of FireQuery (beta 1) is available.

New FireQuery 2 is (re)built on top of native developer tools and is compatible with Firefox 36-39. FireQuery 2 doesn't require Firebug, but is nicely integrated with Firebug 3 (aka Firebug.next) that is also built on top of Firefox native developer tools.

FireQuery 2 new home page:
https://github.com/firebug/firequery/wiki

FireQuery 2 new issue list:
https://github.com/firebug/firequery/issues

FireQuery 2 is in beta phase now and we'd love to hear some feedback from you before we do the final release, thanks!

Honza

[FlashJunior]

@janodvarko great news! thx a lot!