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No.

Sorry about that. Photon is a Design and User Experience refresh for Firefox 57, currently available in nightly builds.

( to be 100% crystal clear, I do think we'll ship things that use servo down the road )

Two things: 1. the largest part of the work on the "major rewrite" - do you mean quantum or servo? If the former, most of the bits we really care about will get shipped on Nov. 14t…

That's true, we can't hire everywhere.

...and, yes there is a legacy problem with old code bases, but one trade-off for interns, contributors, junior developers is that you get to make an impact on a codebase used in a …

We are getting better at killing projects more quickly if they aren't working.

This isn't his main profile ( well I hope not any way ), it's a profile used to test extreme startup performance issues.

Here are two articles from last year articulating Mozilla's view on Firebug: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/12/firebug-3-multiprocess-fir... https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/firef…

Platform support has landed in Firefox 44 and we're working on a prototype extension: https://github.com/firebug/websocket-monitor Soon!

Thanks for voting - I agree this is a critical gap but I have high hopes to get it fixed very soon.

Jan Odvarko, the author of this post, is a Mozilla employee working on Firebug and related projects. He has worked for Mozilla for 4+ years and is paid to maintain / improve Firebu…

Which ones? Curious :)

Firebug takes over f12 from Devtools. Ed: you should try ( and provide feedback to ) Firebug 3, they're dong exactly what you described - implementing Firebug UX on top of Firefox …

Man, that was 7 versions ago! WOuld love to get your impressions of Dev Edition 40. FYI it will create and use a separate profile from your main Firefox profile, so there is no ris…

Safari on iOS is currently working for Mac & OS X, but we plan to ship and support Windows as well.

We have no plans to remove the tools from Firefox release.

I'm glad you got the reference.

That's correct, the devtools will remain in mainline Firefox ( source: I'm the PM ). We are starting to add in guards against things lke self-xss in mainline though, and dev editio…

Thanks - we're definitely interested in Windows support and will take a look at this.

See also the profilist extension: * https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist

Hear, hear. None of this needs to be a standard to show a web page so I'm personally happy to let developers hack on what lets them be more productive, and let browsers continue to…