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Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 080820) Java: 1.5.0_15; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.5.0_15-b04 System: Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb) Using Ubuntu 8.04 that comes with Firefox 3. I installed Firefox 2.0.0.16 and configured the default browser in the IDE to be '/usr/bin/firefox-2'. This works fine, when running or debugging an app (a Rails app in my case) FF 2.0.0.16 is launched as expected. I then enabled client side debugging. The browser is detected correctly and the dialog asking for installing the extension pops up, after clicking OK the browser opens and a page saying 'Netbeans JavaScript Debugger -- launching. Please wait' is displayed. From there on no progress happens; even after 30 minutes the NB JS debugger is still being launched. So the steps to reproduce on Ubuntu: 1. install FF 2 2. configure it as the default browser in the IDE 3. create a Rails application (I used the built-in JRuby 1.1.3 as the platform) 4. enable client side debugging 5. debug the app 6. confirm installation of the browser ext => the "please wait.." page is displayed with no further progress
A few things to help diagnose this: 1) How are you installing Firefox? Through package install or from the firefox site? 2) Is there anything in Tools->Error Console in Firefox? 3) What do you see in the Tools-Addons list in Firefox? 4) Do you see, in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile folder>/extensions/, the 'firebug@software.joehewitt.com' and netbeans-firefox-extension@netbeans.org directories?
Also, this issue seems very similar to Issue 142593, which was fixed a while back. In the worst case, it may be sufficient to use 'firefox -P' to create a new profile for Firefox 2. Note that this problem will become much less common once Firefox 3 support is available.
1) Through the package manager 2) There is the following: installLocation has no properties file:///usr/lib/firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js 3) please see the attachment 4) I can see both there I tried installing firefox-gnome-support as suggested in issue 142593, but that didn't help.
Created attachment 68092 [details] add-ons
From the screenshot, Firebug appears to be disabled. Could you highlight it to see why it is disabled (the other extension requires firebug, so it will be disabled if Firebug is disabled as well). Also, could you provide the exact build number of Firefox from Help->About?
By the way, it appears the root cause of these Ubuntu install issues is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356370 It looks like this bug is only fixed in Firefox 3, even though it will occur on Ubuntu when switching from Firefox 3 to 2. We do use the workaround of removing 'extensions.rdf' from the profile directory, but there are reports that this workaround does not work in all cases.
The exact build number is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080718 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/2.0.0.16 Highlighting the Firebug extension didn't provide any additional info, just the 'Enable' and 'Uninstall' buttons became visible. Clicking Enable doesn't do anything visible though, the extension remains disabled. I'll try creating a new profile for FF 2.
Closing as WONTFIX, since this is an Ubuntu Firefox 2 issue (see the above bugzilla link). Any new add-ons will fail to install, including the ones installed by NetBeans. This may be something to add to an FAQ or the release notes.