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Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by unityByFreedom »

progval wrote: post #109
unityByFreedom wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Source? I don't remember such an ad. Speaking as a dev, the dev tools had a ton to do with it.

> Source? I don't remember such an ad. I too remember seeing this ad every time on Google's search page, but it's hard to search for articles mentioning it now, because any search on keywords "google chrome ads" return completely unrelated results. There are these old questions: * https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0FrX8mjNQu... * https://support.google.com/websearch/forum/AAAAgtjJeM41xpRdM... * https:…

Thanks! I guess the Chrome ads on Google/Youtube show the influence devs can have after all =)

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Post by Vinnl »

martius wrote: post #80
Roark66 wrote: post #60

They should've put this note at the very top of the page: "Mac OS only for now!". What is the point of promoting this to everyone at this stage?

This project is advertised on its own domain (not a mozilla.org subdomain) and there's no header/footer/link to mozilla.org. This makes me think that it's not a feature on the roadmap of firefox sponsored by Mozilla, but an experimentation/side project.

I can't really tell whether this is an official Mozilla website (though it looks like one), but the feature is certainly an official one on the roadmap. See this earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17624709

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by janpot »

cocochanel wrote: post #57
inglor wrote: post #35

This is a pretty nice comment from the source that explains how it works: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/11d9c7b7fa82fdfb8a... ``` // Recording and replaying works by controlling non-determinism in the browser: // non-deterministic behaviors are initially recorded, then later replayed // exactly to force the browser to behave deterministically. Two types of // non-deterministic behaviors are captured: intr…

What is non-determinism in the browser?

I don't know but if I had to guess: order of responses coming in from the server, interleaved with timer events and user events.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by Vinnl »

asaddhamani wrote: post #100

I would love to give Firefox a shot, but there's one thing I've had issues with, when working with projects using things like webpack, when there's an error, Chrome links me back to the original file and line, I never seem to be able to do this in Firefox. Makes it so much harder to debug things. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a way to fix this?

Not sure how long ago you tried, but in one of the recent Firefox versions, they greatly improved the source map support - so it might just be that you should give it another try.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by Vinnl »

ManlyBread wrote: post #58

This looks pretty good. Are there any other tools like this for different platforms? I'd be especially interested in something like this for the .NET ecosystem.

I'm not familiar with .NET, but I think both the Elm devtools and Redux devtools can do something similar, although limited to their own features.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by cm-t »

rutierut wrote: post #24
Phenix88be wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because they all eat a lots of RAM...

This is a good comment, I use FF Dev and Chrome RN, the current project I'm working on is Chrome only. It's nice for context switching (docs, etc in FF, debugging & development in GC) but I was not able to do this (1y ago) on my 2013 MB Pro, it was simply to slow.

you can right click on a tab in firefox, and switch that tab to this or that context ;)

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by azdle »

booleandilemma wrote: post #110
scarface74 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Developers and computer geeks have been overestimating their influence for over a decade. If geeks were influential, the “year of the Linux desktop” would have been years ago, no one would be on Facebook, and people wouldn’t buy into Apple’s wall garden and people would care about “freedom”. Definitely no one would have bought the iPod since it “had less space than the Nomad and no wireless”. ( https://slashdot.org/s…

Dell once sold a “Developer Edition” laptop, so there is definitely a sizable market and developers do have some influence. https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...

They still do: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/cty/pdp/spd/xps-13-7390...

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by lkschubert8 »

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.

That is one benefit of going all in on one of the immutable state management libraries. You can maintain past states and on a bug report attach the whole history to be able to play through it.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by wruza »

davidy123 wrote: post #104
wruza wrote: post #87

As a former gnu/linux user, I see no point to have it on a desktop. Gnu is happy to live under c:/MSYS2, and ‘linux’ part was never good at desktop-home hardware anyway. These 1.77% are barely justified as an option, imo.

I don't know what you're talking about. I've used Debian, then Ubuntu for decades. I'm lucky I don't need the few commercial apps that hold people back, so I get the advantages of everything just working, with a good package system that whole time. These days so much is available in the browser or distributed systems, it's even easier. As for 1.77% (excluding ChromeOS and Android based desktop apps, of course), I'm g…

I’m talking about numerous issues that I had with linux kernel (and alikes) on desktops and workstations for decades.

My story is freebsd 4.x-7.0, then debian (codenames I forgot), then OSX 10.5-10.9, then unbuntu/mint since ~ 2014-2016 maybe (when gpu and os updates broke it again). I also supervised an entire office of debian/ubuntu + printers & scanners for few years. I’m not what you would call a regular linux hater, and it has it’s own unquestioned throne at the server side.

But struggling with the drivers, laptop battery health, suspend issues, lack of business software, configuration, etc etc etc is too much for a regular user who wants things to be done. I was trying to create a scalable solution of win->linux transition for small offices at our company, and it failed. I was converting simple (non-gaming) home users to linux, and it failed most of the times.

I’m not even going into partition and breaking changes in DE teams here, which are de-facto your walled garden version of corp, inc.

>constantly compromising and taking the enclosed garden path has its drawbacks for the larger community

This I am not doing though. I’m using all the software you’re using, including bash, ls, soffice, gcc, etc. I’m all gnu, all unixway, but just not linux kernel & DE and that only on a desktop.

>those people are more significant in terms of software development and user advocacy

But I am one of them, except probably 20x of average experience and real advocacy attempts.

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