| Things are almost always more complex than they appear. Developer tooling is an important area, and we want to see some great tools that make sense for a broad audience to be shipped with Firefox out of the box. What those tools look like and how they're built are some big questions that we're working on answering, and we're starting to answer them: http://mozilla.github.com/devtools/next.html I've been manager of Developer Tools at Mozilla for 3 months, and I can't really comment on how things were before that. What I can say is that right now Mozilla employs someone full time to work on Firebug. Firefox 4 beta 7 has been held up in part to fix some things that have broken Firebug. We do care about Firebug. If you follow the link I just posted (which I should note is a draft that will likely get some revisions soon), you'll see that I'm keen on us building new APIs that make all sorts of developer tools, including Firebug, easier to write and more stable. I am not worried about "AwesomeBug". Firebug is already an awesome open source project, and they're free to take the project in whatever directions they wish. I am worried about Firefox having the best developer tools available anywhere (via built-in product features and add-ons). |