Max Manders

As I mentioned in my last post, I have had issues getting Firebug working in Firefox 3.0b5.  Unfortunately at the moment Firebug isn’t compatible with the beta release of Firefox 3.  To be honest, I’m quite happy with Firefox 2.x.  From what I’ve read, Firefox 3 is more stable and less memory-hungry that its predecessor, and it does look nice (especially so according to Mac users).  Unfortunately, these benefits are outweighed by my love of the Firebug extension.  It is, in my opinion, the best debug tool for web developers bar none.  To that end, I’ve chosen to remove Firefox 3 (and all the bits and bobs that come with it) and install Firefox 2.

A few apt-gets later, I had got rid of Firefox-3 and related packages, and installed Firefox-2, symlinked to /usr/bin/firefox.  However, Firefox-2 still used the profile created by Firefox-3 in my home directory.  I started Firefox from the terminal, with the ‘-ProfileManager’ switch.  I created a new profile, renamed default, and renamed my new profile to default.  I then copied my bookmarks and related data from the old profile directory to the new one.  Once this was done, I started Firefox with my new default profile,  installed my favourite plugins and all was good – Firebug now works like a dream!