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mikeratcliffe

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    Comment #9497543

    Fonts can be rendered completely differently on different operating systems, which often results in a different line height. Controls such as buttons can also be rendered different…

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    Comment #9332871

    Firefox 'cos it's awesome!

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    Comment #9026491

    "Until that number changes I'm not switching to back to Firefox." Maybe you should switch then, why? A lot of this information is subject to interpretation. # of Vulnerabilities in…

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    Comment #8751258

    Firefox uses compartments per domain instead, which is a great alternative to process per tab: "Some readers might wonder how compartments compare to per-tab processes as they are …

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    Comment #8751213

    you can always go to about:support and click "Reset profile..."

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    Comment #8350224

    hehe... read the add-on comments.

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    Comment #8296005

    Steve, the browser debugger should work with all extensions... what isn't working for you?

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    Comment #8289622

    So, you are frustrated because: 1. Mozilla are improving the extension architecture and developer tools too quickly for you to keep up with and that leads to lots of documentation.…

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    Comment #8128900

    So you want something more like this? http://i.imgur.com/MCKla78.png We have it working and will be adding it very soon. It will also be very easy for library authors to add their …

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    Comment #7940095

    Our devtools have unit tests that run for every tiny change that is made to Firefox. Building the tools in gives much more stability. We are also using and exposing a lot of low le…

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    Comment #7940039

    If it was an extension we would lose stability because our devtools have unit tests that test against every Firefox change.

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    Comment #7872840

    Firefox is faster these days. If you find it slower then you probably have addons that are slowing things down. Try disabling your addons and enable them one by one to find the cul…

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    Comment #7475380

    We implemented it that way so that we wouldn't have a never ending list of "the browser is slow when devtools are open" bugs. We do plan on making the disable cache toggle more vis…

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    Comment #6884183

    Can you try running in Firefox's safe mode and let us know if you have the same issue... sound to me like one of your extensions is leaking.

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    Comment #6677104

    Regarding point #2: URLs will soon be clickable in the markup, rule and computed views.

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    Comment #6677065

    Disabling the cache for a single tab still does not work. Maybe somebody could find a way to workaround this though. We just don't want to disable the cache globally as this could …

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    Comment #6510186

    This is a great place to start: http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/

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    Why is it awesome to work at Mozilla?

    http://flailingmonkey.com/why-it-is-awesome-to-work-for-mozilla