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campd

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About campd

I run engineering for Firefox.

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    Comment #9841058

    Like pcwalton said, we already use Gecko to render the UI. But we're using a less well-optimized, less well-maintained corner of Gecko. Improving performance is an explicit goal of…

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    Comment #9841027

    It's not not the first step. That's not the primary driver of this plan. But it might be a happy side effect. Servo is still in early stages, we aren't making product plans around …

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    Comment #9449090

    console.mihai() is in at least Nightly and Developer Edition so far. It doesn't tab complete, and it's not available from content. Mihai didn't like too much attention ;)

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    Comment #9448964

    This is a thing, on Firefox Nightly or Developer Edition.

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    Comment #7933278

    And that work is key to the stuff we're doing. Thanks again, Chrome folks!

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    Comment #7932678

    Integration with external editors/IDEs is a very important part of this project. A lot of what WebIDE brings to the party on top of normal editing is device/simulator management as…

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    Comment #7932552

    Resource usage of devtools that aren't running is near zero (there's a tiny bit of overhead to manage the menu items to launch it). Download size is affected, although for larger p…

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    Comment #6684129

    The team here is dedicated to developer tools full-time. We have no intention of slowing down.

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    Comment #6636262

    https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/firefox-developer-tools-an... has the current description of that relationship.

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    Comment #5326889

    > To be quite frank, this is really ridiculous to me. Why in heck are there TWO separate developer tools for one browser that are both in-house? I tried to clarify this in another …

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    Comment #5326873

    Jan Odvarko, the current maintainer of Firebug, is on our team. He's currently the only Mozilla employee dedicated to the Firebug project. He's joined by a healthy community (you c…

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    Comment #5326738

    > > An intelligent debugger that would automatically step over certain files > That's interesting. I never thought about this. I like that. You haven't been reading your mail, paul…