I've noticed a curious transformation in my habits over the past several Firefox releases.
I debug sites in both Chrome and Firefox, and very frequently when in Firefox my brain misfires and performs the key combo to open Chrome's devtools (Ctrl+Shift+i) instead of launching Firebug, with the effect of opening Firefox's own built-in devtools. Originally this would elicit nothing more than a grunt of frustration as I fumbled for the F12 key; Firefox's own tools were simply far too primitive to bother with (though I couldn't help but notice how much more responsive they were than Firebug). But as the months wore on and features accumulated ("a network panel, finally!"), I found myself bothering to correct my error less and less frequently. Just today, in fact, I realized that I had happily spent all morning in the built-in tools without ever yearning for Firebug.
That said, there are still lots of things that Firebug still does better (more convenient object inspection in the console, for one). But the built-ins launch so much damn faster and keep my general browsing experience so much more responsive that it's starting to get difficult to justify having Firebug installed at all.
Hey Firefox dev tools team: nice work. Keep it up! :)
Yeah, I'm the exact same way. I now only open Firebug when I have to, because it's so much slower than the built-in tools. Switching between tabs that have Firebug open is painful.
I debug sites in both Chrome and Firefox, and very frequently when in Firefox my brain misfires and performs the key combo to open Chrome's devtools (Ctrl+Shift+i) instead of launching Firebug, with the effect of opening Firefox's own built-in devtools. Originally this would elicit nothing more than a grunt of frustration as I fumbled for the F12 key; Firefox's own tools were simply far too primitive to bother with (though I couldn't help but notice how much more responsive they were than Firebug). But as the months wore on and features accumulated ("a network panel, finally!"), I found myself bothering to correct my error less and less frequently. Just today, in fact, I realized that I had happily spent all morning in the built-in tools without ever yearning for Firebug.
That said, there are still lots of things that Firebug still does better (more convenient object inspection in the console, for one). But the built-ins launch so much damn faster and keep my general browsing experience so much more responsive that it's starting to get difficult to justify having Firebug installed at all.
Hey Firefox dev tools team: nice work. Keep it up! :)