After 12 Years, Mozilla Kills 'Firebug' Dev Tool (infoworld.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday October 28, 2017 @07:54AM from the squashing-a-bug dept.

An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld: The Firebug web development tool, an open source add-on to the Firefox browser, is being discontinued after 12 years, replaced by Firefox Developer Tools. Firebug will be dropped with next month's release of Firefox Quantum (version 57). The Firebug tool lets developers inspect, edit, and debug code in the Firefox browser as well as monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript in webpages. It still has more than a million people using it, said Jan Honza Odvarko, who has been the leader of the Firebug project. Many extensions were built for Firebug, which is itself is an extension to Firefox... The goal is to make debugging native to Firefox. "Sometimes, it's better to start from scratch, which is especially true for software development," Odvarko said.

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Re: Firefox is dead by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-28 08:13 · Score: 0, Troll

All anecdotal claims. Face it, Firefox is still the premier browser available, no matter how much you astroturfers try to claim otherwise. Firefox Quantum will make Firefox even faster and take the fight to Chrome, which is losing market share rapidly. Firefox remains the dominant browser, and will only expand its grip on the browser market. I'm sorry you astroturfers can't handle the truth. Firefox is as dominant as ever. All hail the King!