Maybe I found an small bug in Firebug 1.2
It is about the inspect tab in Firebug. I can not use the inspect tab any more when I try to inspect a HTML page with some specific CSS. Unfortunately the site getfirebug.com is down for day’s now, so I can not write a bug report at the moment.

I am using a DIV tag and the CSS declaration is quite simple:

DIV  {
  position:relative;
  width:100%;
  text-align:left;
  overflow:auto;
  cursor:default;
}

Now I start Firebug, and load the page in Firefox. I try to inspect the page by clicking on the Inspect tab. The inspect tab looses focus immediately. This is the bug. I sould behave normaly and draw a thin line around the chosen DOM element.

You can see this behavior on my test page over here:

www.domnodes.org/test.html (this is the page with the error)

I am using:
Firefox 3 RC 3 and Firefox 3
Firebug 1.2.0b3 Windows XP

The problem is one line of CSS
overflow:auto;

Removing this line fixes the problem. See the second test file: this is exactly the same page oly without the CSS line I mentioned :

www.domnodes.org/test2.html (this is the page without the error)

I think this is weird FireBug behavior. I hope this report is somehow useful for you.

You have to check this out in Firefox 3 and Firebug 1.2. In older configurations there are no problems and you can not see the bug. My next post will be a post about the same subject and with a browser crash. So it get worse. Sorry for that.

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