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You should install Firebug. It's better than the integrated dev tools in almost all areas.

About writing extensions we had this on HN in September 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8285744

I'll definitely give Firebug a try. I hadn't even considered it to be honest. I thought I remembered reading a while back that it was no longer important after Mozilla decided to brew their own.

I feel like adding Firebug adds unneeded weight to FF now that FF's dev tools have matured so much. There's still a lot of work to catch up to Chrome, as you stated, but for the most part it's very capable and Firebug just feels like bloat and adds memory consumption that's not necessary.

I sometimes use the dev tools but I prefer Firebug. Maybe it's only better looking but there are some real advantages. I'm on a phone now and can't make a side by side comparison. Relying on my memory won't work :-) The dev tools are faster, that's for sure but Firebug is not slow enough to switch. I'd like the two teams to merge.

You should install Firebug. It's better than the integrated dev tools in almost all areas.

Really? I uninstalled Firebug not so long ago, having concluded that it offered little added value any more, while measurably, repeatably, and dramatically reducing Firefox's performance. Has either or both of these things changed in the last few months?

Yes. Last spring Firebug rewrote its script debugging tools on top of the new JS debugging APIs in the then-upcoming FF nightlies[1][2]. Firebug was painfully slow for me on JS-heavy sites about a year ago. This year it's perfectly responsive, on the same computer.

[1] https://blog.getfirebug.com/2014/03/26/firebug-2-0-alpha-1/ [2] https://blog.getfirebug.com/2014/06/10/firebug-2-0/

The only thing that irks me is that there is no native dark theme for it.

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