Firebug: Now Open Source

Dec 09, 2006 8:03 AM
Tags: css, firefox, javascript, opensource, programming, software

The best web development tool available, my friend Joe Hewitt's Firebug extension for Firefox, is now open source.

Rock. And rock.

The various incarnations of this tool have saved me dozens of hours of work. If it had been around the entire time I was coding JavaScript and CSS, that would be hundreds of hours.

This tool is a must-have; so many useful tools in one.


Comments: Firebug: Now Open Source

Wait a minute, you mean it wasn't open source before? It looks like it was--and Joe simply decided to continue to keep it that way with the 1.0 release (instead of going commercial). Or, am I missing something?

Posted by: Dossy Shiobara on December 9, 2006 1:29 PM | permalink

I think the alpha and beta releases were going to be free and he was musing about charging $15-25 per copy to license the final 1.0 -- instead he's decided to go with a voluntary donation system.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on December 9, 2006 2:54 PM | permalink

No more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.