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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#101

Hi! Just a heads up that folks from the dev tools team will be monitoring this thread and are on-hand to answer questions. We'll try not to thread sit too much. :) In brief, the Developer Edition is a new release channel for Firefox, replacing Aurora (our pre-Beta channel). Everything else about the release cadence is the same. There are four major new features here: 1. The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which le…

Light theme please.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#102
post #59

Hi! Just a heads up that folks from the dev tools team will be monitoring this thread and are on-hand to answer questions. We'll try not to thread sit too much. :) In brief, the Developer Edition is a new release channel for Firefox, replacing Aurora (our pre-Beta channel). Everything else about the release cadence is the same. There are four major new features here: 1. The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which le…

One of the most powerful tools in my chest is Firefile ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefile/ ). Firefile allows you to edit CSS in firebug and save to your stylsheet right from there. It's incredible how this smooths out my workflow and I can't work without it. Firefile, though, doesn't appear to be in development anymore and it's latest release is broken. (I had to make some manual edits to get…

You know you can do this with the CSS inspector in Chrome, without any extension, right?

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#103

Hi! Just a heads up that folks from the dev tools team will be monitoring this thread and are on-hand to answer questions. We'll try not to thread sit too much. :) In brief, the Developer Edition is a new release channel for Firefox, replacing Aurora (our pre-Beta channel). Everything else about the release cadence is the same. There are four major new features here: 1. The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which le…

A really small thing that would be immensely useful to me would be a quick way to to copy or save as plain text a full HTTP request & response, with a little bit of nice formatting to make it human readable. I often find myself passing this data along to API developers via email or chat to debug issues.

I can always just copy and paste directly from the request inspection dialog, but that loses all of the useful formatting, making it hard to parse, or requiring me to go in and add line breaks if I want to be nice to my fellow developers.

Small, but it's the sort of detail that makes for a nice, easy experience.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#104
Angelina Fabbro introduced this tool on a Web developer conference in Hungary [1] a couple of days ago. Here is a short summary as far as I can recall:

- a couple of decades ago alert() was used by pretty much everybody for debugging, even her :) [2]

- most of the developers use(d|s) Chrome for web development

- this is the first serious dedicated tool for web developers which is not just a browser plugin

you don't have to close a million tabs during development

- they worked together with the Firebug team, there will be no duplicate functionality in the plugin and the browser

- seamless Firebug integration. You can switch between Firebug and default theme, it will not break your workflow

- NOT a new browser which you have to support, same engine as in Firefox, nothing new or special about it

- multiple profiles

- developer friendly default settings like enabled experimental CSS features, etc.

- UX improvements for changing config, like switches for features, so you don't have to dig about:config

- support debugging Android, even the iOS simulator or attached device real time

- the dev team is really looking for feedback, they want to make web developers' life easier and put in features based on feedback

- there will be no built in REST API tester tool like Postman REST Client at first, but I was not the first dev who asked for it, so they will consider it for sure

- it will replace the firefox dev channel

- themeable

- much stable than nightly, but you can try out experimental browser features, so it's a good compromise

[1]: http://instagram.com/p/vIiNp_vRXD/

[2]: https://twitter.com/hopefulcyborg/status/530033632636055552

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#105

Hi! Just a heads up that folks from the dev tools team will be monitoring this thread and are on-hand to answer questions. We'll try not to thread sit too much. :) In brief, the Developer Edition is a new release channel for Firefox, replacing Aurora (our pre-Beta channel). Everything else about the release cadence is the same. There are four major new features here: 1. The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which le…

A MitM proxy like Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/) would be incredible. Debugging SSL issues is always difficult, and it would be great to have the tools all in one place.

Also, a shout-out to mitmproxy (https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy) which I've used on several occasions.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#106

Hi! Just a heads up that folks from the dev tools team will be monitoring this thread and are on-hand to answer questions. We'll try not to thread sit too much. :) In brief, the Developer Edition is a new release channel for Firefox, replacing Aurora (our pre-Beta channel). Everything else about the release cadence is the same. There are four major new features here: 1. The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which le…

I want a command-line tool I can invoke from a Makefile, to refresh pages affected by the compile I just did. Existing solutions for doing this are awful and this represents more than half the time between saving and seeing the result on screen for me.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#107
post #96

Doesn't look like I can debug websockets? Chrome's network tab allows you to see websocket frames, but you have to navigate away from it and back to it again to refresh it -- which is a pain. I'm not seeing where/how to view frames in the network tab here, but perhaps I missed it?

Last time I checked Firefox didn't support showing the websocket frames

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#108

Hi! Just a heads up that folks from the dev tools team will be monitoring this thread and are on-hand to answer questions. We'll try not to thread sit too much. :) In brief, the Developer Edition is a new release channel for Firefox, replacing Aurora (our pre-Beta channel). Everything else about the release cadence is the same. There are four major new features here: 1. The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which le…

Just a basic request, but maybe in the developer edition you could default the '3d view' button being available in the dev panel. It took me a while to figure out how to get that cool (and distinguishing!) feature of FF. Thanks!

Edit: To enable 3d view you have to check a box in the settings menu in the Dev Panel, which makes a little 3d box icon appear if anyone else is wondering.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#109
post #101

Hi! Just a heads up that folks from the dev tools team will be monitoring this thread and are on-hand to answer questions. We'll try not to thread sit too much. :) In brief, the Developer Edition is a new release channel for Firefox, replacing Aurora (our pre-Beta channel). Everything else about the release cadence is the same. There are four major new features here: 1. The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which le…

Light theme please.

There are "light" and "dark" themes in the Developer Tools options pane. Click the "gear" icon near the top right of the toolbox:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2Fj8vbCUAMfjwj.png

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#110
post #88

Will https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/... switch to this new build or will there be a new PPA for Firefox Developer Edition?

Mozilla doesn't own this PPA, it's third party. Chris Coulson, the maintainer had mentioned he doesn't have the time to maintain this anymore as I recall. Suggest just getting Aurora on aurora.mozilla.org
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