The notes on the page says that it "works with Firebug 1.4" which is the current beta of Firebug. I can't tell if that means it works with it or requires it, but perhaps that's your issue.
Yeah, this is a very useful plugin. Highly recommended for all jquery developers.
I especially like being able to "jquerify" pages as I like to use jquery for ad-hoc data-mining of pages. It's easy to write up little scripts to pull out information I need.