Ben Williams wrote: > Can anyone tell me why Firebug isn't part of Firefox's core > installation? > > It does seem like an area that Firefox is genuinely falling behind. > IE8 has their debugger as (as far as I know) a non-optional part of > the browser now. Are you sure? It was optional for IE8 beta as far as I remember (or at least one could uninstall it). > Safari 4 beta has similar tools in their default > install (thought it's not out of beta yet). I believe Chrome has > similar tools as well in their default install. > Can't confirm Chrome now, but Opera surely has one built in.
> Yet Firefox relies on a third-party extension? > Yes, but that goes for many other extensions. Many extension that would be much lighter, much safer, and much more usable for everyday-people. Just from top of my mind: session manager, sidebar, quicknotes. Note that even DOM Inspector was (not sure if it still is) disabled and available only as an extension. Firefox from it's beginning was just supposed to be light at start (and as heavy as you like it) ;-). Regards, Nux. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
