# Firebug Console window presents no Command line (\>\>\>\>)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firebug-console-window-presents-no-command-line/186060>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 31, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firebug-console-window-presents-no-command-line/186060 "2010-03-31T02:28:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RichardOnRails)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firebug-console-window-presents-no-command-line/186060/1 "2010-03-31T02:28:06Z")

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Hi,

I’m running Rails 2.3.5, Ruby 1.8.6, WinXP-Pro/SP3, Firefox 3.6.2,  
Firebug 1.5.3,  
MySQL 5.0.37-community-nt, Mongrel

I have a toy .html file displayed in Firefox. When I press F12, a  
window opens at the bottom of the screen with a menu bar offering  
Console, Html, etc.

The console tab presents a sub-menu: Clear, Persist, Profile that have  
tooltips working. Other than that, the Console pane is empty.

Documentation at  
[http://michaelsync.net/2007/09/15/firebug-tutorial-commandline-api](http://michaelsync.net/2007/09/15/firebug-tutorial-commandline-api)  
suggests I should see a textbox at the bottom prefixed with “\>\>\>\>”.

What must I do to get an active textbox at the bottom of my Console  
pane?

Thanks in Advance,  
Richard

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**Author:** ![RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RichardOnRails)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firebug-console-window-presents-no-command-line/186060/2 "2010-03-31T17:55:12Z")

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This topic hasn’t garnered any interest, so I’m abandoning my attempts  
to fix the installed version and will re-install. So this thread is  
closed as far as I’m concerned.

On Mar 30, 8:26 pm, RichardOnRails

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**Author:** ![RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RichardOnRails)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firebug-console-window-presents-no-command-line/186060/3 "2010-03-31T20:48:46Z")

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RichardOnRails wrote:

> This topic hasn’t garnered any interest, so I’m abandoning my attempts  
> to fix the installed version and will re-install. So this thread is  
> closed as far as I’m concerned.
> 
> On Mar 30, 8:26�pm, RichardOnRails

lol, well not exactly rails related, but my guess is that it was in  
multi-line mode. you would see a textarea box to the right. You can type  
your console commands into that field the same as the single line.