> Was it a Mozilla project in the first place? Nope. > I thought it was ...

joewalker · on Nov 28, 2011

Firebug isn't 'owned' by Mozilla, and hasn't ever been, however Mozilla has contributed financially to it's development for some years, and still is.

In addition to supporting Firebug, we're also experimenting with alternative developer tools.

It's my belief that most developer tools just present the user with the information that was given to the browser in the first place, and that we can do a lot to explain how the browser actually understands all that stuff. The native developer tools are a step in that direction.

I work on Mozilla developer tools.

masklinn · on Nov 28, 2011

> Firebug isn't 'owned' by Mozilla, and hasn't ever been, however Mozilla has contributed financially to it's development for some years, and still is.

Sure, Mozilla supports the development of Firebug, but as far as I know it does not make Firebug classified as "a Mozilla project", it's a (very popular) third-party project with support from the Mozilla foundation is it not?

dangoor · on Nov 28, 2011

Right. Mozilla supports quite a variety of things that make the web a better place. Firebug is one of them.

gchucky · on Nov 28, 2011

Thanks for all your answers here, Joe. Just as a note, you may want to update your profile to reflect that you work on the dev tools.