[wch4999]

Seriouly, does EVERYONE need dev tools in their browsers? As a casual web-developer, I use it quite often. It is questionable for most people if they are using the dev tools in Chrome or Firefox. Not to mention when someone accidentally press F12, something scary for them will appear. Personally thining, Making dev tools as an add-on would be more appropriate.

[runeks]

I, for one, like being able to answer someone when they ask me "why doesn't this work?", and I fire up the console and see what happened.

Given that error handling is left completely up to the client application (the web page), I think it makes sense to include tools to see what's going on, not in the least if you suspect the application is doing something malicious (just reload and check the network log).

The browser really is a lot like its own OS, and in this context the developer tools are more analogous to strace or dmesg than gcc, I would argue.