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#2Is this archaeology corner?
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#3Firebug is the reason that I started using Firefox, and still use it as my primary browser today.
The difference between web development before and after firebug was dramatic.
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#4I loved FireBug. Nowadays, every browser has its capabilities, but back in the day, FireBug was the only game in town.
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#5Is this archaeology corner?
No. But once in a while, I want to remind us some bit of history. Hopefully inspire new developers, just like how I got the inspirations about old stuff when I first joined HN.
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#6That brings back some memories. Back in 2005 I started to use Linux as my daily driver and in 2007 I started as a web developer.
Firebug was a blessing, still thanks to IE6 my job was a painful ride.
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#7My fondest memory of Firebug is not the javascript tools, but the Flash Debugger tool; FlashFirebug. I used it years ago to reverse engineer a now gone livestreaming website to figure out how it worked in the backend.
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#8I loved FireBug. Nowadays, every browser has its capabilities, but back in the day, FireBug was the only game in town.
Venkman was the only game in town. It was a glorious day when Firebug surpassed Venkman.
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#9This reminds me of two other now-obsolete web debugging tools.
Weinre[1] let you to view the DOM, network requests, and console output when testing sites on a phone. Aardwolf[2] provided an interactive JavaScript debugger, by rewriting the code to add debug hooks.
[1] http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/ [2] https://github.com/lexandera/Aardwolf
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#10I am indebted to Firebug forever. If it weren't for Firebug it would have taken me a really long time to understand how the web (browser) works.