7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Firebug first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“error stack traces started breaking for both firebug and the horrible builtin developer tools”
regret · production · unilynx · 2022-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using firebug pretty much since it came out. Firebug was an amazing leap forward in web development.”
endorse · personal · nommm-nommm · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Firebug had become way slower than the built-in dev tools”
regret · personal · blauditore · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have found that between firebug and chrome you can generally nail down most bugs.”
endorse · production · kls · 2010-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only reason I still use firefox is because of firebug and downthemall.”
endorse · personal · ashish01 · 2010-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm merely the IT Coordinator, but we run a business quite well... Simply upgrading Firebug often takes a couple minutes.”
neutral · production · lukeschlather · 2011-06-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Of course I do all of my debugging in Firefox with Firebug”
neutral · production · DougWebb · 2010-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?