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13 Jan Honza Odvarko 2011-11-09 06:03:27 PST ... (given that I am the only one maintaining the entire Firebug project now). https://bugzilla.mozilla.or

• past 15y ago
  That comment taken out of context can be quite alarming, indeed. Firebug, until recently, had two developers who were paid to work full time on it (jjb from IBM and Honza from Mozilla) and a number of people who contributed in their spare time. Now it's down to one full-time developer paid to work on it (Honza) and a number of people who still contribute in their own time.
• JanOdvarko 15y ago
  Just to clarify, while I am the only one full time developer, there is bunch of other contributors that are doing great work on Firebug! I am also a member of the Mozilla dev-tools team and one of the Firebug's goals in the future is to reuse Firefox built-in tools and components. This way, we can reduce amount of work on Firebug side and also make sure that APIs of these built-in tools are well designed. So, Firebug would still be a Firefox extension, but built on top of much better APIs, adding advanced features (e.g. those that are not suitable to be natively in Firefox). It's also an advantage for other dev-tools that can appear (as Firefox extensions) - especially for those that integrate with Firebug. Honza