> > > I had seen mention of this already here: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/03/mozilla_cracks_down_on_add_on... > > > Sorry, I din't follow the link in your FWG post, it mentioned Twitter and I > didn't think to see if it was the same link. > > The reason I have a strong reaction to the page is that we invested a > really large chunk of time, both as developers and as a community of > users and testers, to create and improve ways to prevent Firebug from > slowing down Firefox. We did not focus on startup time because it does > not matter. Now AMO creates a page about startup time that blames us > for "slow Firefox to a crawl and make it difficult to use for regular > web browsing." which has nothing at all to do with the startup time > they measure. > > I feel your frustration! Especially as FF devs work closlely with you so > that Firebug can report accurately. >
What they seem to miss is that Firebug not only is an invaluable tool for developers who use it (and, as mentioned, they probably couldn't give a hoot whether FF takes 1 second longer to load as a result) but it is instrumental in the promotion of FF. Developers use FF because they can use Firebug to make their lives easier and, as a result, promote FF to those who they develop sites for. If I was looking for a new tool to aid development and found Firebug, only fo Mozilla to say it cripples FF then I might decide to use Chrome and their Firebug clone tools. But then I'd tell everybody "Use Chrome, I developed the site in it and I know it works". Fortunately I've been using Firebug since before any of the other browsers provided anything similar and I'm hooked, but I suspect Mozilla haven't weighed up the knock-on effect that holding up Firebug as a villain (*without qualification that the benefits of its intended usage far outweigh a marginally slower startup time*) will have on the wider promotion of FF. d -- 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.
