Venkman debugger

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2009–2021), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Venkman debugger, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Hard to use and focused on Mozilla internals rather than web code2021-03-17
Debugger's UI defaults were debatable, making it less approachable2021-03-17
JavaScript debugger's user experience was a horrendous, messy mess2017-10-24
Creating a Firefox extension was a nightmare, with the Venkman debugger off-putting2013-03-05
Debugging was a big pain because the tool was slow on older laptops2009-04-07
In-process design mucks up event queue and breaks paused debugging situations2009-04-07
Debugger UI is heavy and clumsy to use2009-04-07