On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:56 AM, M Gol <mikgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... i don't get it, up until a few days ago firebug was awesome, now > automatically it's crap because it's discontinued? Can I still use the old > (good) one, even though it's discontinued, if i promise to not call > support? I never have in the last x years i've been using it, but this new > one is worse than chrome's dev tools :s sorry > > Nobody here is saying that Firebug is "crap"... just that it doesn't work anymore with the newer versions of Firefox. Also I'm not aware that there was ever a way to "call support" -- what support? This is just a user forum, by the way, not an official Mozilla forum.
The only way to get Firebug to work again is to roll back Firefox to an earlier version and stay there (don't update FF anymore). Which I'm probably going to do anyway within the next few months... because the people who control FF are going to kill off far more than Firebug. They're planning to kill almost the entire FF extensions architecture (XUL). That will break my entire development environment, which relies on numerous extensions plus custom scripts I wrote to tie them together. Mozilla is planning to replace the current extensions environment with Chrome's inferior system. From my point of view, this means that Firefox is going to commit suicide later this year. Of course, running an old browser isn't safe for general browsing purposes (no security updates) which raises a whole other set of hassles -- using different browsers for different purposes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to firebug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to firebug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/firebug. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/firebug/CAMoMLKhOEGLE1vRT_AT8v5AVOnTOrONKkMgQH5eRnt2rL_1yoA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
