Firebug pioneered browser-integrated inspection, editing and debugging of web code in the mid-2000s.

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"Firebug pioneered browser-integrated inspection, editing and debugging of web code in the mid-2000s."

Mozilla's retrospective describes Firebug as the first tool to let programmers inspect, edit and debug code directly inside Firefox while monitoring HTML, CSS and JavaScript live.

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Source title Saying Goodbye to Firebug

Source authors Jan Honza Odvarko

Source year 2017

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Importance mid