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Whoa. That's pretty hyperbolic. Firebug is definitely cool but things like SoftICE or the Visual Studio debugger were amazing.
Visual Studio did front-end web debugging back then?
Windows had one of the first JavaScript debuggers, due to JScript.
Electron already existed as MSHTML packaged apps.
Firebug made me happy to leave that behind.
Firebug was the greatest thing to happen to web development. Honestly I still prefer it to the native dev tools. I especially love how most things go to the console so I don't have to jump all over the place to find the information I'm looking for. I absolutely abhor the network panel in Chrome. It's like they're purposefully trying to make it difficult.
The firebug theme in firefox dev tools has eased the pain somewhat for me.
FF Quantum seems to usher in a new era in browser development. Upgraded CSS Engine Upgraded Render Enginer with WebRender And now integrated firebug support. Exciting stuff.
Firebug was the greatest thing to happen to web development. Honestly I still prefer it to the native dev tools. I especially love how most things go to the console so I don't have to jump all over the place to find the information I'm looking for. I absolutely abhor the network panel in Chrome. It's like they're purposefully trying to make it difficult.
What do you mean? There are plenty of ways to filter down the activity tab in Chrome if the problem you're experiencing is that the volume of requests is too high to be useful.
I know Firebug was great but it didn't usher in Web 2.0 > Jan 2007, Firebug 1.0 The start of Web 2.0! O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference was in 2004 We than had the infamous Time Person of the Year "YOU" "TIME selected the masses of users who were participating in content creation on social networks, blogs, wikis, and media sharing sites."
I do agree that Firebug (as much as I miss it) didn't have much to do with Web 2.0 though.
FF Quantum seems to usher in a new era in browser development. Upgraded CSS Engine Upgraded Render Enginer with WebRender And now integrated firebug support. Exciting stuff.
WebRender is coming but absolutely isn’t ready yet; it’s not even turned on by default in Nightly (although I use it on my home machine and it’s getting a very good very quickly).
Firebug didn't just raise the bar for web debugging, it pretty much raised the bar for all debugging tools. It leaves a great legacy with the built-in dev tools. Great project.
It was easier to develop on Firefox and then debug on IE. So a lot of websites worked on Firefox even if the management team didn't care (or even, in our case, when they told us not to support Firefox and we nodded and did it anyway)
Firebug was the greatest thing to happen to web development. Honestly I still prefer it to the native dev tools. I especially love how most things go to the console so I don't have to jump all over the place to find the information I'm looking for. I absolutely abhor the network panel in Chrome. It's like they're purposefully trying to make it difficult.
> I absolutely abhor the network panel in Chrome. What do you mean? There are plenty of ways to filter down the activity tab in Chrome if the problem you're experiencing is that the volume of requests is too high to be useful.
