Some more comments to this thread. I believe I understand most of the complaints and comments in this thread and I can assure you that we are (FWG and yes even Mozilla) listening to your feedback. I am personally involved in the Firebug project since 2007 and I am quite familiar with the whole thing. Not only with the code base, but also with various planning and strategies we have been through over the years.
Firebug in its current incarnation (i.e. Firebug 2) doesn't have any bright future (and believe me I belong among those who'd love to see it!). The architecture isn't ready for multi-process browser (aka e10s) and FWG is definitely not strong enough to refactor it. It would be enormous pile of work (estimated as several years of work by one of the FWG member). It's not something we want to spent time on - that would mean ignore built-in tools in Firefox and duplicate the existing platform. If you don't agree, do it yourselves. It's an open source after all. Yes, Mozilla could base built-in tools on Firebug, but it didn't happen (I wasn't there personally when the decision has been made). Perhaps, sometimes it's just better to start over (it isn't an exception in the software world). But, this isn't even that important, the important thing is to make sure that Firefox has great developer tools - yes, even better than Firebug is now. I agree that it still isn't the current situation - the more is important to work on one tool (and not spread energy on two independent tools). That's why we decided to move on and (re) build the next generation of Firebug on top of the built-in tools. There is good platform and bad UX and UX is exactly the thing where Firebug (team) can jump in and bring experience. Some features can be part of Firebug 3 and some can be implemented as built-in features for everyone's benefit. Some features can be developed as Firebug 3 features and if accepted well by the community of web-developers, we can make them built-in. We are at a spot where we need to take this path. That's the best we can do. If you want to be productive - point out concrete ideas. What specific features are you missing and what new features you'd like to have. File bugs [1] One of the most commented missing features in Firebug 3 has been XHR debugging/logging. And yes again, we are listening, it's now in Firebug 3 (check out alpha 8) https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/releases/tag/firebug-3.0.0-alpha.8 (if sucessfull, it can become native feature) What should be the next? Honza (Firebug team leader) [1] https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/issues -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/firebug/c5b43ea5-50ea-4647-9160-28803264223e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
