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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by quickthrower2 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:21AM (#36771718)
Firefox gave birth to the first good dev tools as an extension IIRC
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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by ttfkam on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:23AM (#36771755)
Yep, Firebug
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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by HeckFeck on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:16AM (#36772680)
A testament to how open its old extension API was.
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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by asadotzler on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:17PM (#36778519)
The Firefox extension API (which wasn't an API really at all when it was first used) was created to support cases like the DOM Inspector and others which abused Mozilla's XPInstall and XUL overlays (both created for other purposes) to invent extensions. The same people that created the APIs were the same people building those extensions (see Joe Hewitt for Firefox and DOMI and later Firebug.)
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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by i_am_jl on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:15PM (#36774887)
You're definitely right.

I'll go even further; As I remember it Chrome Dev Tools pretty much copied Firebug's homework in terms of UI and feature set.

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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by LunaSea on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:11PM (#36777749)
And then completely lost the plot and has been behind Chrome for the last ten years.
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