Ironically it's kind of a shame, but I feel that the success of Firebug ended up hurting Firefox in the long run. Firebug was really a pioneer in the devtools,

Ironically it's kind of a shame, but I feel that the success of Firebug ended up hurting Firefox in the long run. Firebug was really a pioneer in the devtools, but for so long Firefox just allowed it to be the defacto Dev tools that google ended up lapping them. And they we made to play catch up Once developers started jumping, they convinced slowly got their relatives or non techs friends to switch.