Firebug says “No Javascript on this page”, even though JavaScript does exist on the page

Question

Why does Firebug say there is No Javascript on this page when there are clearly loads of JavaScript on the page. I even reloaded the page several time to make s

Answer 1

Well Firefox native Inspector is good... I know that you will miss some things, but in general we can survive with it. The good news is... less one addon, FF will be faster :)

Answer 2

I also got this error when attempting to use Ajax to a different server than the one serving up the page. JavaScript only allows Ajax access to the server that served up the page.

Answer 3

I encountered No Javascript on this page after upgrading Firefox to ver 50.0, with Firebug ver 2.0.18. I tried refreshing Firefox, even completely uninstall Firefox and installed again. Nothing works for me.

A couple of hours later, I downgraded Firefox to 49.0.2, and voila, it works right away. I downloaded the old version here.

Answer 4

As of Firefox version 50, it seems that Firebug will no longer work as Mozilla are migrating to Firefox Devtools. The tab Tools/Web Developer has a 'debugger' option. See this page for a discussion on the migration. Read all the posts dated 19 November for further information.

It seems to me that the option gives less functionality but Firebug per se is never going to be fixed for Firefox 50 and beyond

Answer 5

This problem is STILL happening (Aug 2015) with Firefox 39.0.3 and Firebug 2.0.11

For people saying the code is wrong or missing end tags etc. all I did to get all the javascript to reappear in tab was to shut down Firefox and restart it. I didn't change anything. Also that "Clear Activation List" option didn't work (no idea what that means)

Answer 6

I tried everything on this list and nothing worked for me except resetting Firefox like so:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-problems