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> and therefore did not liked it, when frequently changes broke their setup. Which is unfortunately an inherent problem with our legacy customization approach. And it is clearly no…

Thanks for the suggestion, this has now been fixed.

about:permissions was an incomplete experimental UI, but a fully functional replacement is high on our priority list. We are waiting on a new design from the UX team at the moment.…

This is exactly right that X means "close" or "hide this thing" and this is what it does in this case as well: it removes the non-default setting and hides the list item.

There have been a number of user studies done by Mozilla and other browser vendors that clearly show end users only have a basic grasp of the security properties of the web. So yes…

Anonymous data is by definition not privacy-invasive. That's why it's called anonymous.

You are pretty much describing the Firefox architecture. We are invoking Firefox UI code from scratchpad all the time when prototyping things. Some parts of the UI do not use stand…

Mozilla has been paying the main Firebug developer for a long time to work on it, but I've never heard of an open source project that would like to be "acquired", whatever that mea…

This should actually already work if you are on Firefox 23. Please file a bug if it doesn't.

This is actually in the latest stable Firefox release already (Firefox 23).

As mentioned on the hacks post, ever since Firefox 23 the web console is actually working on the same context as the debugger, when execution is paused on a breakpoint or debugger …

This is already implemented in Firefox 22.

Sorting and filtering are planned, yes.

The inspector has a search box in Firefox 21 and above.

Mozilla can't kill Firebug, even if they wanted, since it's a separate open source project and community. And the only people with two inspectors would be those that elected to hav…

You can detach the developer tools window and put it anywhere you like.

The profiler has a stackwalking mode that provides more accurate info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Performance/Profili... You would need to use a nightly release to ge…

In order to get to that modal message, you first have to go and enable remote debugging, which is not something normal people would do. And in general, even though we can (and alre…

Allowing websites to interact with the Debugger API is something we would like to do, but, as you note, the security implications require much more thought to get it right.

Yes, since Firefox 15.

This is fixed in Firefox 18.

That comment taken out of context can be quite alarming, indeed. Firebug, until recently, had two developers who were paid to work full time on it (jjb from IBM and Honza from Mozi…

Erm, narwhal actually uses rhino as its default engine. Perhaps you meant to say that you can now target the narwhal API, instead of waiting for rhino to expand its API offerings?