Craig Hamnett
Social Media Layabout
Web Developer Toolbar Not Showing/Disappeared
I use Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar (FireFox addon) all the time, it’s a must for any designer/developer looking to debug HTML/CSS. However it suddenly disappeared after I updated Firefox to 3.0.6 and Skype to version 4.0.0.206.
After frantically hunting for a solution I finally found out what the problem was. Skype naughtily installs a FireFox addon which appears to be uncompatible with the Web Developer toolbar for some bizarre reason.
Simply going to Tools » Addons in FireFox and disable or uninstall the Skype extension for Firefox 2.2.0.102 and viola, your toolbar is back in place!
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February 16, 2009 - 7:54 pm
Fantastic – Thank you – worked perfect – I got to ask how in the heck did you figure that out?
brad
February 16, 2009 - 8:08 pm
Hey Brad, glad it helped you out! I got stuck for at least 10 minutes before I figured it out. I went through my list of addons to see if there were any conflicts and noticed the Skype addon which I didn’t physically add myself, uninstalled it and breathed a sigh of relief when my toolbar came back!
February 17, 2009 - 10:33 am
Thank you very much. I was also facing this problem. I got the solution from you.
February 17, 2009 - 11:37 am
No problem!
February 25, 2009 - 4:06 pm
For me it was the WASP firefox addon that was in conflict with the Web Developer toolbar.
February 28, 2009 - 2:38 pm
I disabled every other add on and no fix happened. You should they don’t have to be uninstalled?
March 2, 2009 - 9:07 pm
Thanks it also worked for my TwitterFox AddOn.
March 5, 2009 - 3:51 am
Nice find man – that had been bugging me :)
March 5, 2009 - 10:51 am
many thanks for this :)
March 8, 2009 - 4:30 am
Thanks Craig. I was like, What tha’! Glad I found your fix. Worked great!
March 13, 2009 - 6:02 am
Thanks a lot Craig!!! I was really upset without my beloved WebDevelper bar :)
March 14, 2009 - 11:00 am
Thanks heaps, I am so glad to have found this fix!
March 19, 2009 - 5:25 pm
Thanks. Yours was the first to come up in google. It was very upsetting this morning trying to work on a design and find my toolbar missing. I tried enabling and disabling and was at a loss as to why it would not show up on the toolbars menu. It’s amazing you traced it to the Skype extension, which I find annoying anyway.
March 19, 2009 - 6:11 pm
No problem guys, I freaked out as much when it disappeared! Just glad that this post has helped so many! :)
March 25, 2009 - 8:23 am
Thanks Craig for the info, you are a genius
March 25, 2009 - 11:18 am
Happy days…. This has been driving me crazy… I must have reinstalled the plugin about a million times.. updated firefox.. uninstalled firefox….
Thanks skype.. : (
Thanks for the fix…. Much appreciated…
April 1, 2009 - 9:43 am
Thanks mate! One whole month of pain sorted!!!
Much appreciated…
May 6, 2009 - 10:15 pm
Phew! finally after months my Web Dev add-on not working its finally on. Skype sucks.
May 11, 2009 - 4:23 pm
I had the same issue, but uninstalling Skype didn’t completely fix it for me. I used DerrickE solution @ http://chrispederick.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2238 (customizing the toolbar and restoring the default set) and my beloved toolbar is back. Thanks for the tip!
May 12, 2009 - 12:57 pm
Yes, like Ryan said… “one month of pain”, although in my case is probably more than a month…
Another fix I found while searching on google is to right-click on Web Developer toolbar and go to “Customize”… once you’re in, just click on the “Restore Default Set” button… and voila!
I have also uninstalled Skype Extension just to make sure… I had it disabled anyway…
Cheers,
Alex Mos
May 13, 2009 - 3:44 pm
Dear thanks for providing this solution, it simply worked great.
May 18, 2009 - 7:15 am
Thanks for your post. It is very helpful :)
June 5, 2009 - 4:51 pm
Hey… I had the same problem… it was a problem with ThinkVantage password manager, I uninstalled that software from my machine but the addon was still there making noise… just disabled it and presto…
June 8, 2009 - 8:54 pm
It didn’t work for me – I have googled this and tried all the solutions I have found posted. I absolutely can’t work efficiently without my web dev add-on!!!! :(
June 18, 2009 - 12:52 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you – I blew about a month on this one until it bugged me so bad I googled it – I needed to restore default set on the toolbar too – but man – I am so happy. Thank you
June 28, 2009 - 7:03 am
Favicon Picker 3 was causing the problem for me. I uninstalled it and, viola, the Web Developer Toolbar was back.
July 12, 2009 - 12:34 pm
For me the problem was Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant that I disabled as it can’t be uninstalled.
November 2, 2009 - 8:58 am
Thank you! Solved my problem! :-)
December 8, 2009 - 3:27 pm
Jetpack for me, thanks for the nudge in the right direction though!