Firefox Replay

#1

Post by nachtigall » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 9:59 AM UTC

Re: Firefox Replay

#2

Post by strombofulous » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:14 AM UTC

Ooooh wow. This might be enough to get me to use Firefox to develop with. This could be huge for its market share, a big part of the reason chrome was able to become so popular was because of how good its devtools were (compared to the competition at the time).

Firefox definitely managed to catch up but not before lots of devs switched to chrome and stopped checking for compatibility with Firefox.

Re: Firefox Replay

#3

Post by devit » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:14 AM UTC

Why "Download Firefox Nightly for macOS"?

Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?

Re: Firefox Replay

#4

Post by phoe-krk » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:18 AM UTC

devit wrote: post #3

Why "Download Firefox Nightly for macOS"? Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...

> Currently only macOS is supported.

As for why - no idea.

Re: Firefox Replay

#5

Post by Blaiz0r » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:18 AM UTC

This looks great, it's good to see that Firefox is pushing new dev features, instead of playing catch-up to Chrome.

Does Replay work on the Firefox Dev build?

Re: Firefox Replay

#6

Post by kevsim » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:19 AM UTC

The biggest benefit for me (I think) would be if the product/design people I work with could find issues and send their recordings to me. Don't think I'll be able to convince them to switch to FF though.

Re: Firefox Replay

#7

Post by pyr0hu » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:19 AM UTC

devit wrote: post #3

Why "Download Firefox Nightly for macOS"? Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?

I think they are printing out the OS based on your user agent.

EDIT: sibling comment cleared things up, so mine is irrelevant

Re: Firefox Replay

#8

Post by bdibs » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:21 AM UTC

Looks potentially really useful, but is it normal for them to create a whole site just for one new feature?

Re: Firefox Replay

#9

Post by melling » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:21 AM UTC

kevsim wrote: post #6

The biggest benefit for me (I think) would be if the product/design people I work with could find issues and send their recordings to me. Don't think I'll be able to convince them to switch to FF though.

I use Chrome, Safari, and the Firefox Nightly. Not sure why there’s so much dedication to one browser.

Re: Firefox Replay

#10

Post by aspaviento » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:25 AM UTC

strombofulous wrote: post #2

Ooooh wow. This might be enough to get me to use Firefox to develop with. This could be huge for its market share, a big part of the reason chrome was able to become so popular was because of how good its devtools were (compared to the competition at the time). Firefox definitely managed to catch up but not before lots of devs switched to chrome and stopped checking for compatibility with Firefox.

There are still a lot of QoL features that Firefox DevTools misses. For example autocomplete for CSS classes, a tab for handling Service Workers, commands to perform actions (like disabling JavaScript), etc.

I find myself switching between browsers just to take advantage of the different features each one provides which is slighly annoying. I would sincerely love some kind of unified DevTools.