Shivan Jaikaran’s Blog

So, you have problems trying to get Firefox v3 or v2 and Firebug running on your Ubuntu Hardy Heron machine huh? This is what happened to me and this is how I solved it in TWO (2), yes 2, steps. Firefox 3 beta came with Ubuntu Hardy Heron but Firebug will not work for the life of me. When you try to inspect an element, the html looks raw and there are broken images etc. I am sure it all looks familiar. Worse yet, un-installing Firebug is a nightmare….the bloody thing just would not install!

After many hours of Googling, reading forums, reading blogs and reading random web pages, I finally found a 2 step solution. Make sure Firefox 2 is installed.

1. Go to /home/your_profile_name/.mozilla/firefox/{weird_profile_name}.default/
2. Change the file extentions.rdf to extensions.rdf.old

Restart Firefox now and walla! It works!

Now I can go on living…