<story><title>Thank You, Firebug (2017)</title><url>https://getfirebug.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>annnoo</author><text>Wow, i almost forgot about Firebug.&lt;p&gt;From my point of view it was really a game changer. The first time debugging and understanding web-applications became accessible. Probably all browser dev tools were inspired by this tool</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Firebug is the reason Firefox broke IE’s crown. On one project we had management tell us specifically &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to support Mozilla. Fuck you man. We get the software running on Mozilla first because it’s the only place we can debug properly. Then we fix whatever IE bugs are left over by dead reconning. We’re still going to be Mozilla first, we just won’t tell you about it anymore. And you just lost some trustworthiness so good luck convincing us of something difficult next time.&lt;p&gt;I still think the Mozilla team did Firebug a dirty by reimplementing what was an inferior version instead of bringing it home.</text></comment>
<story><title>Thank You, Firebug (2017)</title><url>https://getfirebug.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>annnoo</author><text>Wow, i almost forgot about Firebug.&lt;p&gt;From my point of view it was really a game changer. The first time debugging and understanding web-applications became accessible. Probably all browser dev tools were inspired by this tool</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cockbrand</author><text>It certainly changed my life when I saw it for the first time. In fact, I do remember the exact situation when I was shown Firebug, and my realization that my live as a (then) frontend developer would change for the better from that moment on.</text></comment>