Firebug debugging parsing error?

Question

I am getting some wierdness with the Firebug debugger. I have screenshots that explain the problem:

http://www.tqis.com/pen/eloquency/images/tmp/before.png

As this screenshot demonstrates, the line numbers after 885 are not colored green, which means Firebug does not recognize these statements as executable code.

After a confounding hour or so, I got these results

http://www.tqis.com/pen/eloquency/images/tmp/after.png

The only difference between the files in the editor is the commented blank line.

This seems like an unreliable workaround. Can anyone share something more helpful?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There are Firebug bugs related to this:

• Issue 4646: Incorrect marking of lines as executable
• Issue 5081: Does not stop on breakpoints

Also note that somebody else asked because of a very similar problem lately.

The Firebug Working Group is currently working on moving to a new debugger API, which should (hopefully) fix such problems.