On Oct 11, 8:20 pm, Yves <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that Firefox has increasingly advanced developer tool on its own, I > don't know what advantage Firebug still has over the built-in Firefox > tools. Why do I need to install another add-on? Could somebody please give > me some reasons? The website fails to point it out, which makes an > impression on me that there is no advantage anymore. Given that this > community is still very active, I cannot believe that this is true.
There are significant advantages: 1) Firebug offers more features and little polished details that make daily development tasks easier to do. 2) Integration among all tools/panel is better and allow to use Firebug as one complex instrument. 3) There are many extensions implementing additional features. As built-in tools evolve, Firebug will also take advantage of better platform (Firefox) APIs and new components (e.g. JSD2). Firebug can also reuse existing built-in dev-tools UI components and integrate itself into it. This strategy helps Firebug to grow faster and experiment with ideas for new generation of developer tools at the same time. You can see Firebug as an extension of built-in tools, which implements features that are not available in Firefox. > Also, why does Firefox include so many developer tools - don't they like > the Firebug guys, are they generally incorporating popular add-ons into the > core, or where's the line between the two? Both teams (dev-tools team and Firebug team) are tightly collaborating (I am member of both). We are hardworking on making the dev-tools API well designed and making sure that Firefox has the best platform for creating developer tools. Honza -- 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 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebug
