Adobe, please revive Fireworks!

Since I started this post, I never could imagine that this matter could reverberate until today. This only confirms that Fireworks still today is THE TOOL. And believe me, I am still searching for a substitute tool, but without success at all. I´ve tried some of the new UX tools that appeared here an there. XD is way too complicated than Fireworks.

The tool that most I appreciated was Figma, that is simple and has some awesome plugins that extends its power. However, even Figma struggles with commands that would be way easier to do, as export an element: I need to go to a hidden tab that don´t have the multiple choices that Fireworks has and for some obscure reason, Figma simply denies the element to save. It simply doesn´t works and the system ignores the user and don´t show any error or warning screen that would allow me to understand why of that strange behavior... I think it´s funny, not to say it is tragic, because the developers are ignoring the most basic fundaments of the heuristics in a tool that was supposed to be a model in UX development...

Not, that Fireworks is perfect in this matter. In fact, it has its own annoying bugs. But, in case of Figma is a brand new developed tool that appeared in a age where we have plenty of knowledge about UX, instead of the unknown terrain that Macromedia needed to tread to achieve the tool. It´s terrifying that we still don´t understood the UX and development scenario brilliantly already described back in the early first decade of 2000, by Alan Cooper in the book: "The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity". Sometimes, I have the sentiment that instead of evolve, we involve in the last two decades.

Indeed, I will continue to use Fireworks until it stops definitively or that some really good tool show up to finally dethrone Fireworks. And I will continue to disturb the corporations like Adobe so they can pay more attetion for improve the usability of the tools as Macromedia used to do in their golden age.

This is a link to some batch commands, you can copy to your Fireworks commands folder and batch convert layered Fireworks PNGs to other formats including layered PSD.

If you have a newer version of Mac OS that does not support 32 bit applications (Catalina, Big Sur or Monterey) you will not be able to run Fireworks natively but you can look at running the Windows version version of Fireworks on a Mac with Parallels Desktop which some people have had success with.

Other options include Photopea which opens layered Fireworks PNGs

My experience is Fireworks is working great on Windows 11, although I see some people have had issues....

This was my GO TO for everything from flyers, logos, edits, images, etc, etc! It had everything I needed. I miss it so much. It was the perfect combination of tools.

I agree in gender, number and grade.

Fireworks is web oriented, and this makes productivity infinitely higher than using photoshop or illustrator.

I've been using fireworks for over 10 years, and I don't give up for anything. I hope it comes back one day or if it doesn't, at least it doesn't stop working.

Adobe Fireworks is the best software for all around web design, independently of Adobe supporting it or not it is. Have tested all other related adobe solutions and from competition and its basically Adobe lack of Vision, fireworks simply fills a gap in the Adobe Solutions, they seem to don't understand that even if Illustrator + Photoshop do what Fireworks does for web design with some extras, Fireworks inuitive UI in terms of probability will often surpass for users the other extras that using Illustrator and Photoshop offer. Cheers.

If I may ask, what kind of web related jobs do you do in Fireworks that other software has issues with?

I am aware of the unique preview tab option, but otherwise? What are the features which you feel are beyond other applications?

I agree with you, sadly I don't think Adobe will start putting resourcs into again. It was put into EOL status back in 2013, I just don't think Adobe understood how good Fireworks was/is and because some of its features cross over into Photoshop and illustrator they decided to kill it off ..... I still use Fireworks daily myself ...