Kitchcraft

So I’ve been using Firebug for about 6 months steady now. It’s changed my life for sure, and I was thinking that I should finally mention it somewhere public. I recently found Joe Hewitt’s (creator of Firefox and Firebug) blog, and it will be going on my blogroll shortly. I’m just so impressed by this guy. Anyway, every time I try to get my friends and colleagues to pick it up, I am met with resistance. This baffles me. People jump on extension band-wagons all the time, apparently just not the one I’m driving. But why?

Everyone downloaded the Web Developer Toolbar when it came out, and that thing is nothing compared to Firebug. It has it’s useful qualities, but seriously, its so “cheap” in comparison.

Back to Firebug, when I was first introduced to it by Nick Carter I did whine a little, as I always do, but the second I saw something on the page change live before my eyes, it was like “What??” You show it to people and their eyes light up like a whole new world has just been offered to them that they never had imagined would be possible. But they never pursue it after that. I’ve been told to do my Firebug thing for people, and they act like it’s some skill. If you’re developing or designing or both, for heck’s sake, do yourself a favor, and get this thing.