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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by Izkata on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:59AM (#23445887)
Firebug doesn't exist anymore, it died with Firefox Quantum.
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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by est31 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:04AM (#23445908)
Was Firebug still useful in the last years of its existence? It seems to me the dev tools have replaced all functionality. At least that's the reason why I uninstalled Firebug.
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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by Izkata on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:56PM (#23448690)
I don't remember specifically what they were anymore, but I do remember back when that happened there were still 2-3 features in Firebug not in the official tools that I used regularly. I think one was around ajax requests, the other around CSS. I ended up holding off on the Quantum upgrade for about a year for them.
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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by est31 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:18PM (#23450926)
There is also Firefox developer edition. Its dev tools are a bit more comprehensive than those of vanilla Firefox. I wonder how it compares to Firebug's feature set.
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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by AnonC on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:22AM (#23445979)
Weren’t the Firebug features absorbed into Firefox over time?
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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by pmontra on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:00AM (#23446760)
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/12/firebug-lives-on-in-firefo...

> The decision was made that the next version of Firebug (codenamed Firebug.next) would build on top of Firefox DevTools, and Firebug would be merged into the built-in tools.

> And perhaps most importantly, we joined forces to build the best developer tools together, rather than compete with each other. Many of Firebug’s core developers are on the DevTools team, including Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko and Mike Ratcliffe. Other Firebug Working Group members like Sebastian Zartner and Florent Fayolle are also active DevTools contributors.

> A huge thank you to them for bringing their expertise in browser developer tooling to the project!

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