The Stable Bookmarklet does not start Firebug

[florianpilz]

I have first seen this bug in IE9, but cannot reproduce it there. However, the bug is also present in Firefox (tested version 13 and 25).

There are not so many steps involved:

1. Create a bookmarklet for the stable version of Firebug Lite 1.4
2. Go to a simple page, e.g. google.com
3. Invoke Bookmarklet
4. Nothing happens

Via the builtin firebug I can see, that the JS gets loaded. But I don't see an error on the console or the like.

Interestingly, the Debug Bookmarklet works fine and afterwards the normal bookmarklet works as well. You can reproduce that with the following steps:

1. Create a bookmarklet for the stable version of Firebug Lite 1.4
2. Create a bookmarklet for the debug version of Firebug Lite 1.4
3. Go to a simple page, e.g. google.com
4. Invoke Stable Bookmarklet ==> nothing happens
5. Reload page
6. Invoke Debug Bookmarklet ==> Firebug Lite opens
7. Reload page
8. Invoke Stable Bookmarklet ==> Firebug Lite opens

The Stable Bookmarklet will now work until the browser is restarted. I thing there is some JS or resource missing in the stable version, that is downloaded and cached by the debug version.

I hope you can find the bug, it's really nasty if "stable" does not work, but debug does. This bug did cost me around 2h, since I didn't understand why I couldn't get Firebug Lite to work.