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When I started out as a web developer 5 years ago, one of the prime reasons for choosing FF over chrome was Firebug. As a beginner, it made debugging so much e

• styfle 9y ago
  That's odd because I seem to recall that I switched to Chrome from Firefox shortly after Chrome was released because it shipped with Dev Tools circa 2009. I mean 5 years ago, Chrome added debugging Web Workers[0] so clearly Chrome Dev Tools were already quite mature by 2012. [0]: https://blog.chromium.org/2012/04/debugging-web-workers-with-chrome.html https://blog.chromium.org/2012/04/debugging-web-workers-with...
• giobox 9y ago
  My memory might be way off base here, but I'm fairly sure Chrome Dev Tools were in a reasonable state by 2012. Screenshots from the time certainly suggest so. My experience is much the opposite, in that it was around 2012 or so that I probably stopped installing Firefox on my dev machines altogether. That said, recent features in Firefox (Containers especially) have me much more interested again.
  • Zarel 9y ago
    I played around with Chrome in 2008 when it first came out in beta, and I remember finding Chrome Devtools an improvement over Firebug. By the time the Firefox 4 betas were out, it was no contest; Firebug was very crashy (which, to be fair, it's hard for an extension to support a beta browser, but Chrome's dev and beta channels always had a reasonably stable devtools thanks to it being built-in).
• analogic 9y ago
  and now why i use chrome :/ dunno if chrome tools are better, but ff tools are sloow