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http://remotedebug.org/ RemoteDebug is an initiative to bring a common remote debugging protocol to today's browsers. The vision is to enable a new generation of DevTools and editors that are able to communicate independently of their vendor. http://remotedebug.org/roadmap/ But implementing remote debug we will gain ability to friend Netbeans with any browser developers like, by supporting only one interface.
There is no RemoteDebug specification (yet?). Hence, there is nothing to implement (by now). The RemoteDebug initiative recommends to reuse Chrome remote debugging protocol that we support already.
OK, I see. Therefore I hope we need this https://github.com/auchenberg/remotedebug-firefox-bridge at least. I mean to be able to debug at Firefox at least. I know that it could take a long time to support each browser separately, but if we can bind at least Firefox easily with such approach why couldn't we? Tomorrow firefox OS developers will ask for debugging in Firefox OS emulator anyway, and here goes the solution. However you will be 1000% right if you say that it's unfinished and does almost nothing. And then we have https://github.com/campd/fxdt-adapters. This add-on provides the ability for you to debug various remote targets from the Firefox Developer Tools (FDT). See https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/firefox-tools-adapter/. The only thing I could not figure out is if there is and external connection possibility to FDT? If so, then FDT could be the proxy between Netbeans and any browser we want to debug. What do you thing about this?