A 2017 vision piece from a Firefox DevTools engineer outlining the long-term strategy for browser developer tools. Key pillars include migrating away from XUL and privileged APIs toward standard HTML/CSS/JS, enabling faster shipping outside the browser release cycle, moving the codebase to GitHub for easier community contribution, and building cross-browser debugging support for targets like Node.js, Chrome, Safari, and Edge. The ultimate goal is to evolve DevTools into an independent, web-based standalone product that any web developer can use, extend, and contribute to.
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Using standard web technologies onlyShipping and experimenting better/fasterGoing out of the central browser code repositoryDebug anythingConclusion: an independent productSort: