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FireRainbow breaks Firebug's tooltip inspector

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Reproduce the issue with FireRainbow v1.0 and Firebug v1.3.3 using the this.widgets.okButton example. Start by tracing how FireRainbow affects Firebug's tooltip inspector, then compare hovering over this, widgets, and okButton with highlighting enabled and disabled. Done means all three values can be inspected again.

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Description

When FireRainbow (v1.0) is enabled, Firebug (v1.3.3) loses the ability to show tooltip data for anything other than the parent object.

For example, say I have the code:
this.widgets.okButton = ...
at runtime, I can hover over "this", but not "widgets" or "okButton".

With FireRainbow disabled, it's possible to inspect all three values by hovering over them in turn.

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
58
Forks
12
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