dapper: does not work with default Firefox version

[Marius Gedminas]

I've firefox and mozilla-livehttpheaders from Dapper installed. If press Ctrl+I to go to the Page Info dialog, and look at the Headers tab, I see this text:

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To be able to display headers information in the PageInfo tab of Mozilla or Firebird the nsHeaderInfo component must be registered.
This component should be found in the file Mozilla/Components/nsHeaderInfo.js.

Registration should have been done by the LiveHTTPHeaders installation.
However this sometimes does not work.
Follow these steps to enable Mozilla or Firebird to find and register the component:

    * Delete the file Mozilla/Components/compreg.dat
    * Delete the file Mozilla/Components/xpti.dat

These two files should be recreated automatically by Mozilla or Firebird when it is next started.
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If I close Firefox, remove those two files from ~/.mozilla/firefox/$myprofiledir/, and restart Firefox, I still see the same text in the page info dialog.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Hmm, it works in a different profile (one that I had created before upgrading to Dapper). I'll have to investigate a bit more.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I was mistaken, when I said livehttpheaders worked for me with a different Firefox profile.

The "Headers" tab only "works" when no page is actually loaded (i.e. you're looking at about:blank). Then you see two empty lists of request and response headers. If you actually go somewhere, then the "Headers" tab displays that component registration necessary message.

In other words, mozilla-livehttpheaders in Dapper is unusable with firefox in Dapper.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Upstream changelog of version 0.12 mentions a fix for something that sounds exactly like this bug.

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

Reporter,

is this bug still valid in edgy?

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Edgy has firefox 2.0 beta 2. mozilla-livehttpheaders does not work with this version at all. Tools -> Add-ons shows Live HTTP Headers 0.12: Not compatible with Bon Echo 2.0b2.

As far as I can tell, upstream doesn't have a version compatible with 2.0b2 either.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Fixed in 8.10 alpha.