Re: Port Firebug to Chrome

[Jan Honza Odvarko]

Firebug (the addon) can't be easily ported to Chrome since it's based on Firefox specific API

But there is also "Firebug Lite", which is pure web application running within a page and
supporting major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE).

https://getfirebug.com/firebuglite

The problem is that we (Firebug team) don't have enough resources to support both
projects and so, we focus only on Firebug (the addon).

Anyone who'd like to help us with Firebug Lite is welcome...

Honza


On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 5:37:51 PM UTC+1, Hari wrote:

Maybe this request will be silly: can you do anything about porting Firebug to Chrome browser?

My opinions: Chrome's developer tools suck, compared to Firebug. Firefox sucks, lately, performance-wise, while Chrome seems to not have problems in that area. I don't know what they're doing to Firefox, but it crashes, hangs, spins, leaks memory, becomes slow, tabs depend on tabs, [stop me any time], ... - I mean, seriously? What kind of quality procedures do they really have over there? And machines I'm using this on are multi-core fast CPU systems with 8-16 GB of RAM (don't tell me it's me, please).

The only reason I'm still using Firefox as my main browser is because I'm working on HTML and JavaScript all the time, and I happen to like Firebug. If Firefox won't get fixed, then I think something better needs to replace Chrome's dev-tools. I have no knowledge in browser plugin development, so I don't even know what any of that could entail, but something needs to be done - so, I'm begging those that do have knowledge and resources to make many of us happier.

Thank you.

[Sebastian Zartner]

See also an earlier discussion on that.

Sebastian