Comment 1 for bug 214372

The firebug devs have just yesterday 4/20 committed a patch to the 1.2 svn branch that seems to fix this. So, I've put together a new version of the firebug package based on the 1.2 version that's currently available in svn. I've also built the package and made it available in my PPA - version is 1.2~b20+svn561. Please let me know if this helps you.