Get Involved
There are a number of ways you can help or contribute to Firebug.
File bug reports and request new features
Firebug is in constant development. If you find an issue, or want a certain feature or improvement, file it on the Firebug Issue Tracker so someone can take a look at it.
If you're looking for help with an issue, there are Firebug users and developers active in the Firebug Google Groups as well as the Firebug IRC channel.
Read more about how to become a contributor.
Improve the code
Firebug is open source. Patches (or bug reports) are welcome! John Barton's introduction to the source or Jan Odvarko's Extending Firebug tutorial may be helpful.
License
Firebug source code is distributed under BSD License.Firebug Working Group
The Firebug Working Group seeks to advance the Open Source development of Firebug for the benefit of the worldwide web development community.
The Firebug Working Group newsgroup is primary communication channel for FWG members.
Current Members
- Jan Honza Odvarko, Mozilla, odvarko@gmail.com
- John J. Barton, IBM
- Joe Hewitt, Firebug creator and Facebook
- Steve Souders, Google
- Douglas Crockford, Yahoo!
- Dion Almaer, Mozilla and Ajaxian
- Kevin Sawicki, Aptana
- Rob Campbell, Mozilla
- Azer Koçulu, Kodfabrik
- Curtis Bartley, Mozilla
- Hans Hillen, a11y additions
- Kevin Decker, search, Firediff
- Mike Collins, IBM
- Mike Ratcliffe (inspector), Mozilla
- Austin Andrews, (windows icons)
- Hernan Rodríguez Colmeiro
- Christoph Dorn, extensions, firephp
- Steven Roussey, AppCenter Inc, Network54
- Sebastian Zartner
- Pedro Simonetti Garcia
- Harutyun Amirjanyan
- Stampolidis Anastasios
- Joe Walker, Mozilla
- Farshid Beheshti
Translators
- Leszek(teo)Życzkowski (pl-PL)
- markh (nl-NL)
- peter3 (sv-SE)
- AlleyKat (da-DK)
- Hector Zhao, lovelywcm (zh-CN)
- Lukáš "lordfrikk" Kucharczyk, Michal Kec (cs-CZ)
- Team erweiterungen.de, ReinekeFux, Benedikt Langens, Sebastian Zartner (de-DE)
- l0stintranslation, gonzalopirobutirro (it-IT)
- alexxed (ro-RO)
- Nicolas Martin, Franck Marcia (fr-FR)
- gLes (hu-HU)
- Xavi Ivars - Softcatalà (ca)
- gezmen (tr-TR)
- eternoendless (es-AR)
- Dark Preacher (ru-RU)
- Tiago Oliveira, Diego de Carvalho Zimmermann, Alexandre Rapaki (pt-BR)
- Juan Botías, Álvaro G. Vicario (es-ES)
- Andriy Zhouck (uk-UA)
- Hisateru Tanaka (ja-JP)
- Mohsen Shadroo (fa-IR)
- Eduard Babayan (hy-AM)
- Helder Magalhães (pt-PT)
- Tomaž Mačus (sl-SI)
- Stoyan Stefanov, Alexander Shopov (bg)
- Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson (is-IS)
- NGUYỄN Mạnh Hùng (vi-VN)
- Bwah (hr-HR)
- Sonickydon (el-GR)
- David Gonzáles (es)