IE Dev Toolbar 1.00.2188.0 annoying popup fix
Some time ago Microsoft has released great addon to Internet Explorer called Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. Latest version 1.00.2188.0 bring many great features, however it also brings huge annoyance with IE7 and any script debugger installed on system such as Visual Studio 2005 - an error popup asking for debugger selection every time we open new page. Want to know how to fix it?
How to fix that ?
It is possible to fix that with any good Resource Editor. Follow the recipe to get rid of popping up JavaScript error:
- Close all Internet Explorer windows.
- Locate and extract IE Dev Toolbar JavaScript source using any resource editor. Open C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar\IEDevToolbar.dll and extract resource TXT/235/1033 (type/resource ID/resource language). I used Resource Extractor extension of Total Commander. Alternatively you can use XN Resource Editor. I didn’t use Resource Hacker for this because it was saving the resource as hex-dump rather than binary file.
- Modify extracted JavaScript source 235.bin using any text editor. Locate function:
function ParseDoc(doc) { var aRules = GatherRulesFromDoc(doc); collSelectors = parser.Parse(aRules); // Set quirks mode if necessary if("BackCompat" == doc.compatMode) { for(var i = 0; i < collSelectors.Count; i++) { collSelectors.item(i).SetQuirksMode(true); } } }Change red marked line into:
try { collSelectors.item(i).SetQuirksMode(true); } catch(e) {} - Save back the resource file 235.bin into TXT/235/1033 of IEDevToolbar.dll. I used “replace” function of Resource Hacker.
Now you should have fixed IEDevToolbar.dll, that is not raising any errors anymore.
Note
Please don’t ask me about any binaries as it is against EULA of IE Dev Toolbar.
@Adam THANKS for this workaround! I wouldn’t have tracked it down to IE Dev Toolbar. For about one week I wondered why some parts of the pages I’m working on aren’t showing up. And because IE 6 is only my test browser (my main browser is Firefox) I haven’t noticed that it happens on almost every page.
@StefanI’ve downloaded last week the latest version 1.00.2188.0 from “5/9/2007″, uninstalled the old version and installed the new one: the error occured.
I used “XN Resource Editor”, saved the resource as .txt file, edited it, removed the old one (English USA), imported the editedone, changed language property to “English USA” and everything went smooth.
Thanks again!
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hey great stuff…
There is a new version (date 05/09/2207) of the Developer Toolbar, that solved this problem for me
Great stuff. Didn’t manage to find the location of this script, since I don’t have any third party search tool on this machine and as of Windows XP, explorer search no longer searches binary files for text.
This behaviour really seems to be related to IE Dev Toolbar 1.0 and Visual Studio being installed at the same time and affects IE 6.0 as well.
One hint for users of XN Resource Editor: The file extension determines where an imported customer resource will go. So, to be able to replace the existing resource, store as “235.txt” when exporting the original.
@davins [6]: This is normal (as far as Microsoft’s definition of normal goes). You cannot reinstall the same version of IE in XP.
When I am trying to reinstall the same version of Internet Explorer, A message has appear the following error message:Setup has detected a newer version of Internet Explorer already installed on this system.Setup cannot continue.
I’ve had the toolbar and VisualStudio 2005 installed on the current PC I’m using for a couple of months now and had been debugging javascript fine until today. Now the bug has bit…. no idea what triggered it to start failing.
@Marantz: Well, I just post here a cure for this bug. Editing the resource is only way to hack it, as it is an error directly inside internal IE Dev Toolbar scripts, and I think Microsoft is the right one to ask about the real cause of this problem and better solution.
AGAIN!
>> collSelectors.item(i).SetQuirksMode(true);
Any hint on the REAL cause of this bug ? Where this function is supposed to be defined ?
Why is it missing ? Editing resource files seem too much on the HACK side to me.
Well, this isn’t first time Microsoft doesn’t bother fixing some annoyance in widely used product. At least IEDev Toolbar is free product, yet.. I’ve submitted time ago some bug reports about Visual Studio 2005 Pro ($800 per license) that was introduced in SP1, that was making fancy release folder names like “release”, “Release” didn’t care of filename case, and well… they confirmed the bug, two weeks later they made it “won’t fix” because it doesn’t crash VS, later on they wrote that doesn’t appear in Orcas (VS2007).. so they don’t care, I may downgrade the SP1.
But for God’s sake I paid $800 and I expect they make an effort to support the product at last for 1 year !! So that’s why sometime we need to manage some bits & bites ourselves
Brilliant. This really works. I cannot believe that Microsoft cant get their head out of their arse to fix this. properly I used Visual C++
to edit the dll as described above but I couldn’t “replace” the bin file, I had to import the changed file as a new resource and then copy and paste the binary data from the new resource to the existing 235 one. I then deleted the new resource, saved the dll and now the toolbar works great.