Friday, April 22, 2011

Firefox 4 Bug: Can't use to develop Dojo applications

Firefox 4 has been released last month and users around the globe was very happy of Firefox 4 being Fast, Customizable, Secure, and New UI. But it seems that all those attractive bright features had stolen Mozilla developers' attention from what the real Firefox advantage once used to be - its Firebug extension.

 Firefox 4 was released with a bug in it. Basically the bug makes it impossible to use Firebug with Firefox 4 to develop Dojo applications. From discussion in the bug report it seems that Firefox 4 will never get fixed and JavaScript developers have to choose between using Firefox 3.6 (slow and clumsy) and switching to another browser until Firefox 5 becomes available.

This situation could seem surreal, but things get more clear with three facts in mind: Firefox is IBM's default browser, Firebug is sponsored by IBM, and Dojo is IBM's primary JavaScript platform.

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