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?
Seems to be a MacOS only feature.
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#12Why "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.
It's probably because its cheaper, and most web developers are using macOS anyway
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#13The 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.
Because they all eat a lots of RAM...
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#14Why "Download Firefox Nightly for macOS"? Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?
Presumably the implementation is platform dependent and they wish to start with where they believe the most relevant developer mindshare is. I'd guess it's still somewhat tricky for them to playback different replays across platforms.
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#15Looks potentially really useful, but is it normal for them to create a whole site just for one new feature?
vivaldi put a ton of effort into presenting each update, fancy graphics etc, but yea creating a unique domain for a feature is pretty strange alright
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#16Ooooh 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.
Do you really think the web developpers that use advanced dev tools can make a real difference in their market share? (real question)
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#17Looks potentially really useful, but is it normal for them to create a whole site just for one new feature?
If it is a killer feature, and that's a marketing move - why not. Looks like that Firefox been working hard lately to change trends in browsers' market share.
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#18Ooooh 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.
Do you really think the web developpers that use advanced dev tools can make a real difference in their market share? (real question)
It happens because applications will stop working on chrome if developers never test on it. The recommendation when a user hits a bug will be to check it in Firefox and slowly Firefox will become the reliable/advanced/working option.
It’s happened with IE, Chrome before and will swing back away from Chrome eventually.
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#19Ooooh 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.
Do you really think the web developpers that use advanced dev tools can make a real difference in their market share? (real question)
Not necessary but they are the ones which develop websites. I use Firefox daily for my job and that ensures that whatever I build will have a 100% Firefox compatibility.
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#20Why "Download Firefox Nightly for macOS"? Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?
“Almost all implementation work so far has been on macOS. Windows port work is underway, but is not yet working. The difficulties are in figuring out the set of system library APIs to intercept, in getting the memory management and dirty memory parts of the rewind infrastructure to work, and in handling the different graphics and IPC pathways on different platforms.“
From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...