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November 6th, 2007, 08:37 GMT · By Bogdan Popa

Firebug Incompatible with Google's Gmail

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Since Gmail is one of the top mail technologies on the web, it's pretty important to make it compatible with most browsers and applications used by the consumers to access the inbox.
Firebug is one of those applications that are not supposed to work with Gmail or at least, this is what Google Mail tries to say. Haochi from Googlified received a nice-looking red Gmail message which reported that 'Firebug is known to make Gmail slow unless it is configured correctly'. The users who encounter this error have two options: fix it or hide. But what happens if we push the fix button? Google automatically disables Firebug as this is supposed to be the only and the easiest solution to make Gmail work faster.

Yesterday, I wrote an article about the new Gmail which might be slowed down due to some incompatible extensions, plug-ins or scripts installed in your browser. As far as I can see from the picture provided by Googlified, Haochi got the error while using the new version of the Google mail service so it's probably an incompatibility between the extension and the new flavor of the product.

Google provides an additional way to fix the error but it is only available for the Windows and the Linux platforms:

1. Click the green or red icon in the bottom right corner of the browser window to open Firebug.
2. Click the Console tab.
3. Select Options.
4. Uncheck Show XMLHttpRequests.
5. Click the Net tab.
6. Select Options.
7. Check Disable Network Monitoring.

In case you don't know what Firebug is, you should known that the extension "integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page", the official Firebug website reads.
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Comment #1 by: Lawrence on 08 Jan 2010, 20:24 UTC reply to this comment

5. Click the Net tab.
6. Select Options.
7. Check Disable Network Monitoring.

There is no Options in my Net tab.....I only can disable the whole Net tab. Is it ok?


Comment #2 by: 1kenthomas on 29 May 2011, 04:04 UTC reply to this comment

Ditto Lawrence. The current FireBug does not have the same menu options as the various and sundry home brew old wives tale "fixes" out there.

The above being one of many :)

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