Usually development doesn’t suck. You code along and stuff starts to work and you are happy.

Sometimes stuff does not work and you are not happy anymore. This is where you begin to debug. Debugging is annoying. What’s even a lot more annyoing when you spend a lot of time on it and can’t find the error. And what’s really, really, really annoying is when you find out, that it wasn’t even your fault in the first place. This is what just happened to me.

Just as most web developers we use Firebug for development. Plus I also like to stay uptodate with Firefox, so I switched to 3.1B3 recently. Turns out there’s a bug in that release that when you use Firebug and Firefox together, AJAX breaks. Bad. Especially since we use AJAX a lot on whatthemovie and will use it even more on wtm2. Firebug enabled => No AJAX. Firebug disabled => Can’t debug AJAX.

The folks are trying to fix it though. here here and here and here