Build Firebug Into Firefox
The other day I came to a startling realization: that all of the major web browsers—except Firefox—have Firebug-like developer tools built into them. Specifically, these browsers:
- Internet Explorer(!) 7 and 8
- Safari
- Google Chrome
- Opera
This is clearly the way things are going. Firebug and similar tools are so critical to developing web apps now that I think the Mozilla Foundation ought to acquire Firebug and build it into Firefox. I’d accept making it an option on installation, defaulted to “off,” so that non-developers needn’t deal with it.
I’ll second that. Firebug is already a great tool, and if the Mozilla developers were able to get their hands on it and polish and refine it further, it would be even better.
captor
June 29, 2009 at 4:01 am
I happen to not like Firebug, for some reason. I prefer to use the Web Developer Toolkit and the DOM Inspector. If Firebug does get built in, I hope there’s some easy way (other than about:config) to disable it.
Azuka
October 27, 2009 at 11:58 am