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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by JohnBooty »

acqq wrote: post #150
callahad wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The release process might help explain it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease or, if you're familiar with Chrome's stable / beta / dev / canary channels, it's largely the same model. As far as fundamental web platform features are concerned, the Developer Edition is a normal pre-Beta channel. It's primarily that more willing to promote new tooling up from Nightly into the DevEdition or to set different default pre…

I see, the "new rules" are easiest to summarize as one more "let's do it like Chrome" step.

Good software projects aren't afraid to borrow features and practices that are working elsewhere.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by dschep »

AaronMT wrote: post #110
dschep wrote: 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

Oh, didn't realize that. I got it from FF directly for now, but was hoping there'd be an easier way to install it.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by jbm1991 »

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 would really like to switch to this to get away from Chrome but there is one thing stopping me. Which is that in Chrome when I'm debugging JS I can see a full list of files in their folders and can open them up to see them and add breakpoints and things. Like this http://derp.co.uk/1ae64 But in Firefox all I get is http://derp.co.uk/3be04 which is of zero use to me and it means I can't use it over Chrome. Am I missing something or is this just not a feature that Firefox has?

Thanks

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by mbrubeck »

acqq wrote: post #150
callahad wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The release process might help explain it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease or, if you're familiar with Chrome's stable / beta / dev / canary channels, it's largely the same model. As far as fundamental web platform features are concerned, the Developer Edition is a normal pre-Beta channel. It's primarily that more willing to promote new tooling up from Nightly into the DevEdition or to set different default pre…

I see, the "new rules" are easiest to summarize as one more "let's do it like Chrome" step.

These aren't new rules; this has been the Firefox release process since Firefox 5 was released (3.5 years ago).

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by serve_yay »

masklinn wrote: post #160
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…

> What tools do you need? Safari 8 introduced "breakpoint actions" similar to Xcode's: when a breakpoint is set, it can be configured to not actually break (keep running even if the breakpoint condition matches) and if it matches: * log a message * play a sound * execute code * run a probe Each action type can be used any number of time on the same breakpoint. It's not the most stable and almost undocumented — the on…

Hmm, interesting!

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by rpwverheij »

Just downloaded it and gave it a try. I've been using chrome for development for a long time and I must say this looks really good and I'd really like to switch cause I like the firefox image/mission much more. However I'm experiencing some problems editing my .less files directly from the browser. They don't show up in the list of style sheet files, even though I have "show original sources" checked. Where do I submit an issue for this?

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by Brakenshire »

jimmyhmiller wrote: post #122
tumblen wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If I'm understanding what you want, this is built in already. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Style_Editor

Pretty sure you can. What would be nice would be if the same functionality worked with SASS (and LESS), so you could not only trace back to the original sources using source-map, but also edit the SASS, see the results in the browser, then save the SCSS files.

It would require a SASS interpreter built into the browser, not sure if that's practical or realistic. But it would help a lot for when you need to make edits locally and see the results on a remote server.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by debaserab2 »

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…

The ability to save the current state of cookies under a given name for loading later.

Having different named profiles for remembered users/passwords for a given site. Chrome can do this but I've never cared for it's interface that much.

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