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Re: Firefox Debugger

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Post by Vinnl »

callahad wrote: post #26
polack wrote: post #24

Slightly OT; What's the "Developer Edition"? > Build, test, scale and more with the only browser built just for developers. This is the only description I could find on their website. What's the difference to the normal version?

DevEdition is our fourth release channel, along with Stable, Beta, and Nightly builds. The engine is generally based on Beta, but we can ship features to DevEdition separately from mainline Firefox. For example, we can ship new developer tools to that channel before they land in Beta, it runs in its own separate profile by default, we allow Developer Edition to disable the add-on signing requirement, etc.

Apart from giving you access to all these features, being based on the beta also means that you can discover potential breakage in new Firefox versions before those hit the general public.

Re: Firefox Debugger

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Post by ajford »

pjmlp wrote: post #4
melicerte wrote: post #2

Sad to see a post by Mozilla only referencing Mac and Windows shortcuts to start the debugger. Most of the web developers I know are using Linux for web development, including javascript (some are using MacOS, none Windows). On Ubuntu, the debugger is started by using S (like Windows actually).

I don't know any Web developers using Linux on their desktops, as company policy requires Windows desktops. Linux is only used for Java based backends, when deploying into production. With .NET deployments being done on IIS, even with .NET Core. Some of the designers are using Photoshop on macOS. Anecdote data.

Linux web dev here.

Will confess that most of it is scientific applications for the science and modeling team, which runs a mix, leaning towards Mac and Linux for... reasons, so dev work on Linux is better suited.

The "Business" side of the house uses C# and IIS on Windows.

Re: Firefox Debugger

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Post by kibwen »

agumonkey wrote: post #25
polack wrote: post #24

Slightly OT; What's the "Developer Edition"? > Build, test, scale and more with the only browser built just for developers. This is the only description I could find on their website. What's the difference to the normal version?

dark theme... and maybe more

All the usual releases of Firefox also ship with a dark theme these days. Menu > Customize > Themes > Dark.

Re: Firefox Debugger

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Post by 10000100001010 »

masklinn wrote: post #37
10000100001010 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can at least both "Log Message" and "Evaluate" in Chrome with conditional break points. Calling console.log is falsy, so calling it from conditional break points just causes it to log the message (you also have access to any variables in scope of the breakpoint that you can use to build the message). You can do the same thing with executing random JavaScript. Just put the statement and add && false to make sure i…

> You can at least both "Log Message" and "Evaluate" in Chrome with conditional break points. You can obviously do that in any browser, it's just inflexible, ugly, error-prone and inconvenient.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I rarely have issues with it

Re: Firefox Debugger

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Post by agumonkey »

kibwen wrote: post #43
agumonkey wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

dark theme... and maybe more

All the usual releases of Firefox also ship with a dark theme these days. Menu > Customize > Themes > Dark.

yes, I meant by default.

Still curious about what's special about the dev edition.

some preconfigured dev-friendly things ? like more verbose logging ...

a separate release channel between nightly and stable ?

Re: Firefox Debugger

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Post by deltaprotocol »

shmerl wrote: post #34
bugmen0t wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Click the cog icon, top-right for DevTools options. Available themes are Dark, Light, Firebug.

Compare this new dark to one that was there a few versions back. I'm talking about the older one. Example: https://support.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/images/2016-09...

Fully agree with you. The old dark theme feels more comfortable (less contrast between colors). Each and every time I open the devtools now this thought crosses my mind.
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