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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by fixedd »

spain wrote: post #65
callahad wrote: post #43

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…

2 and 4 alone are reason enough to use it, nice work. EDIT: Wow after trying it out it seems like a long-time bug I've been experiencing has been fixed, I'm willing to bet it's not just the clean install either because I tried resetting Firefox multiple times before and it hadn't helped.

Considering eighty-something percent of people who responded to the survey despised Australis, I could see a lot of people choosing it for #4 alone.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by bjz_ »

cadecairos wrote: post #78
philo23 wrote: post #57

I managed to get this when downloading Firefox Aurora over the weekend while reinstalling my OS. I wasn't expecting the dark UI when I opened it. I personally found it a little garish and I couldn't immediately see a way to turn it off. Anyone know if there's a way to switch it back?

You can change the theme in the customization menu (there's a theme drop down on the bottom left), or by using the about:addons and going to "appearance"

Can you switch it to the normal OS theme? I'm really not a fan of the non-standard UI... :[

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by numbnuts »

tadasZ wrote: post #101
callahad wrote: post #43

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.

Changing the DevTools theme changes the whole browser's theme too.

http://i.imgur.com/NJzTpG9.png

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by acdha »

callahad wrote: post #43

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'd love it if the Responsive Design Mode had multiple viewport support so you could have the same page visible at multiple breakpoints simultaneously

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by px1999 »

The developer tools are the only thing stopping me from switching back to FF from Chrome.

The tooling in Firefox does seem to be improving rapidly (kudos to the devs for that, I'm not trying to trivialise the hard work that they've been putting in, by any means), but there are still several basic(?) features missing from the script debugger. Calling this a "developer edition" is IMO a misnomer until you can reasonably use it to develop pages/sites/applications - currently every other major "not-for-developer edition" browser already gives you almost everything this does, and in some areas quite a bit more.

What would make it a developer browser to me:

* Folder grouping on resources

* Allowing webide or the script web tools tab to work with local folders (Chrome workspace equivalent)

* Dynamic updates to scripts (Chrome workspace/dev tools equivalent)

* The ability to open and/or display more than 1 script at a time. Tabs in developer tools should operate like browser tabs (orderable, poppable etc)

I hope that this isn't just a re-branding exercise - the video, site and fanfare make it sound like Mozilla's aiming to make something great for developers (not to mention that the FF tools are headed in the right direction), but the first release and associated posts/comments seem to indicate that it's essentially a nicer packaging of what used to be aurora.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by wkdown »

For some reason, I convinced myself that Valence was going to allow us to change the engine to Webkit and Trident as well as Gecko. While testing iOS and Android is awesome, this would have been downright incredible.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by callahad »

bjz_ wrote: post #112
cadecairos wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can change the theme in the customization menu (there's a theme drop down on the bottom left), or by using the about:addons and going to "appearance"

Can you switch it to the normal OS theme? I'm really not a fan of the non-standard UI... :[

Yep! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Developer_Editio...

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by kgtm »

callahad wrote: post #43

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…

Firefox is unusable for developers with poor eyesight that use OS-level accessibility features such as high contrast on recent versions of Windows.

There is an open bug but no love: [ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790706 ]. Firefox forces high-contrast colors, completely destroying HTML rendering, with no option to disable this behavior.

Using a high contrast theme in Windows doesn't mean i don't want to see web pages as their developer intended.

Chrome gets it right, why can't Firefox?

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by nickpresta »

If a member of the dev tools team is watching, when first launching Firefox Developer Edition, I get a modal on top of a modal:

http://i.imgur.com/w11zZJJ.png

This wouldn't be a problem usually (although strange) but I have to click the partially hidden box under the top most box to dismiss anything.

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