Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
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Re: Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
#2Can anyone explain exactly what's different about this?
Are all these features not in normal Firefox? Is this like a beta of normal firefox, set of extensions, or a significant fork?
Re: Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
#3I can't seem to make the switch away from Chromium devtools. I don't know whether it's because I am habituated to the Chromium ones or whether there is something klunky about the Firefox devtools that I can't put my finger on.
Re: Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
#4Can anyone explain exactly what's different about this? Are all these features not in normal Firefox? Is this like a beta of normal firefox, set of extensions, or a significant fork?
They are not, apparently the reasoning was not to make Firefox bigger with needless features not requires by non-techie users.
At least this is how I recall it, please anyone correct me if I am mistaken.
Re: Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
#5Can anyone explain exactly what's different about this? Are all these features not in normal Firefox? Is this like a beta of normal firefox, set of extensions, or a significant fork?
I think it's mainly a difference in configuration. The developer version, IIRC, allows you to install extensions on your own machine without seeking approval from Mozilla, but on the other hand it apparently subjects you to additional telemetry:
> Firefox Developer Edition automatically sends feedback to Mozilla ... In addition to the data collection described in this Privacy Notice, these versions by default may send certain types of web activity and crash data to Mozilla and in some cases to our partners.
Re: Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
#6Can anyone explain exactly what's different about this? Are all these features not in normal Firefox? Is this like a beta of normal firefox, set of extensions, or a significant fork?
Special features: kind of like an IDE on top of Firefox, meant to be used by web developers. Comes with its own config profile, so you can fuck around and not break stuff in stable/beta that you are supposed to have concurrently installed.
Kind of like beta: all of the new APIs and features related to web development are there three months before they hit stable.
Re: Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
#7I can't seem to make the switch away from Chromium devtools. I don't know whether it's because I am habituated to the Chromium ones or whether there is something klunky about the Firefox devtools that I can't put my finger on.
I guess it's a question of habit.
I have the same problem in the opposite directions: the interface of Chromium developer console is unfriendly to me, I never manage to get comfortable with it...
Re: Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
#8I can't seem to make the switch away from Chromium devtools. I don't know whether it's because I am habituated to the Chromium ones or whether there is something klunky about the Firefox devtools that I can't put my finger on.
meanwhile I'm the exact opposite. I've been using the firefox dev tools too much that using chrome on someone else's machine is something I feel like I have to put up with.
That's not me saying Firefox's tools are actually better though, there's still a number of weird quirks or features that could be lacking, while also having features I can't find in chrome that I also take for granted
Re: Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
#9Not a front end dev but this looks really neat.
Re: Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
#10I can't seem to make the switch away from Chromium devtools. I don't know whether it's because I am habituated to the Chromium ones or whether there is something klunky about the Firefox devtools that I can't put my finger on.
I guess it's a question of habit. I have the same problem in the opposite directions: the interface of Chromium developer console is unfriendly to me, I never manage to get comfortable with it...
>I have the same problem in the opposite directions
Me too, as one example: Chrome had no way to edit/re-send AJAX requests for the longest time