I suspect you are going to see Firebug be "less good" over time as the lead developer no longer works on it. The lead developer worked at IBM and IBM allowed him to develop Firebug on company time. That developer no longer works at IBM, and actually works at Google now... specifically working on Chrome. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20080338-264/firefox-world-loses-web-dev-guru-to-chrome/
Issue solved itself with latest fb update. Seems they moved the bug icon to the top and removed the status bar.
Such a bummer. I missed the little bug icon. Now have to make use of F12. Need to get used to the bug being moved to the top.