The major browsers, including Firefox, already have their own inspect tool with similar capabilities to Firebug.

Don’t worry! There are alternatives to Firebug. Before Firebug, debugging a website was a complex task.

It was the easiest way to find bugs on your sites. Here at OSTraining, we often recommended Firebug to our customers when they had issues or were learning web development. I’d like to take a moment to say thank you to the whole Firebug team for helping to make our web design work easier.

This awesome piece of software was developed and maintained by Joe Hewitt, Jan Odvarko, robcee and the Firebug Working Group. Go to the Firebug website and you’ll see this message: However, Firebug has reached the end of the road after 10 years. It helped you to inspect HTML elements and modify your designs directly in the browser. For many years, Firebug was one of the most helpful tools available to web developers and designers.įirebug, launched back in 2006, was an add-on that integrated with the Firefox browser.

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