Web Developer Toolbar Missing / Not Showing – Permanent Solution

Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar is probably my most used Firefox add-on as a web developer, along with Firebug of course. However ever since my Firefox updated to version 3.0.x the toolbar keeps disappearing. Here are my find on the solutions discovered:

Temporary solution:

-Right-click anywhere on FF Navigation toolbar -> Customize

-Restore Default Set

-Drag and reposition any buttons you need.

-Restart FireFox

However when Firefox is reopened the toolbar disappears again..

Permanent Solution:

-Uninstall Skype add-on. The plugin was known to conflict with the web developer toolbar. (thanks to craighamnett)

-Repeat the temporary solution as described above.

Conflicts between add-ons are quite common especially for complex toolbars like Web Developer toolbar and Firebug. If you have the same problem but the Skype add-on wasn’t the culprit, I suggest you disable all your plugins and re-enable them with Web Developer Toolbar in pairs to find out which is causing the problem. I’ve done this a couple of times before to find out some lag issues with FF plugins.. A little tedious, but the caveman solution always works

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