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In my opinion Firebug started a revolution in web development, making JS webapps feasible for regular devs for the first time.

Thank you for giving us a lot of the interfaces and tools that live on as "developer tools" in today's browsers.

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Precisely. The web-developer world we take for granted was singlehandedly brought to life by Firebug. What used to be alert("foo") was replaced with console.logs, and there was no going back. Its probably a good thing that Firebug is discontinued. It has fared well, and made the world a better place.

It certainly made it easier for me to copy code and dissect it :)

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