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I've had to say this a fair few times here, but I'll keep saying it. IEDevToolbar, which Firebug was pretty much a clone of, came out a year before Firebug. An
by mattmanser 6y ago
I've had to say this a fair few times here, but I'll keep saying it.
IEDevToolbar, which Firebug was pretty much a clone of, came out a year before Firebug. And it took Firebug years to catch up in feature parity, as far as I remember.
So, firebug didn't make it the dev tool of choice. We all just hated microsoft. And tabbed browsing was great.
- oxymoron 6y agoI was young and dogmatic, so I did admittedly despise Microsoft back then. I can't recall I ever heard of IEDevToolbar, though. Did it really feature the DOM tree view where you could do CSS manipulation? I always had the impression that it was a Firebug invention, but I could be wrong about that.
- treve 6y agoThe DOM inspector view in Firefox predates Firebug by years. My memory might be a bit shaky, but it may even have existed in Mozilla Web Browser? It really looked like a 'DOM tree/tree of Javascript classes' though, not really like the inspector we have today.
- Klonoar 6y agoWhat? I used that IE toolbar setup for years, and it _never_ worked as well as Firebug did.