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How big are the developer tools compared to the rest of Firefox? 5% of the total size? 10%?

Can't the more sophisticated tools be split into a separate extension, leaving only some basic things in the distributed package?

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As long as they don't impose any load while you're browsing without the tools opened, I see no reason to. And Chrome also includes them.

Dev Tools load on demand and do not affect casual browsing.

The addition of a "firebug like" tool has been made because having it not embedded was hurting Firefox adoption: removing it now would mean to forget the past.

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