Sorry for the delayed answer! I was extremely busy the last few weeks. On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 12:56:38 PM UTC+1, pd wrote: > > Please put back the firebug and let developers to choose which dev toolbar >>> they could use. >>> >> >> Firebug was mainly developed by volunteers (like me), which already left >> the project. So, I'm afraid, Firebug won't come back. Though if somebody is >> interested in reviving the project, the sources are on GitHub >> <https://github.com/firebug/firebug>. >> >> Sebastian >> > > You've done a hugely valuable and great job keeping Firebug working for > those of us who know it's superior to anything else out there. >
Thank you! > Would you be willing to continue Firebug development, or at least > maintenance, if you were paid, Sebastian? > Short answer: No. Long answer: Getting money for working on Firebug was never my goal. My primery goal was always to help other web developers. The UI and website process separation in Firefox (aka e10s) would require to rewrite most of Firebug's code base. Doing so requires a whole team of people, not a single person. And to make it competitive against the other devtools again, it would require even more work. So, at this point in time it doesn't make sense for me anymore to continue working on Firebug. To me it makes more sense to help the Firefox DevTools to become as good as Firebug. I was under the impression it was going to be maintained until the > new/native tools reached feature parity with Firebug. > That's unfortunately not the case due to the reasons mentioned above. Though it was a goal to make a somewhat smooth transition. (Though I know that the transition could have been smoother.) > Does anyone believe new/native tools have actually reached Firebug feature > parity yet? > No, they don't have feature parity yet. That's why bug 991806 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991806> is still open. Though many of the differences were already removed and the DevTools team will work on fixing more of those gaps the upcoming months. People willing to help them should contribute patches for the bugs blocking 991806. While the last two years my focus moved to improving MDN <https://developer.mozilla.org/>, I'm still there helping Firebug users to move to the Firefox DevTools. Sebastian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to firebug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to firebug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/firebug. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/firebug/58b5af21-1f7b-4ae3-9153-666b102c22f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
