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Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by depr »

XaspR8d wrote: post #161
barkingcat wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People on HN don't like anything.

Speaking of which, I'm a little shocked to see a Mozilla thread that doesn't yet mention Pocket or the rebranding or DoH. That must mean we are in a good mood?

No, just too busy talking about Linux on desktop!

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by bogwog »

_bxg1 wrote: post #170
udfalkso wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently switched back to FF after many years on chrome and find the dev tools to be as good of not better this time around. Curious which tools in particular you find worse? When was the last time you tried?

You know, as I'm going back and trying to come up with specific points, I'm having a hard time. Partly it's little usability things: - There was one time when an HTTP request was failing and I couldn't figure out why, and in the Network tab Firefox wouldn't show any information about it, even the request that went out (other than the URL), whereas Chrome not only showed the headers, it surfaced that it was a 404. - T…

FF's tools used to be pretty bad compared to Chrome's, and while my main browser has always been FF I always keep Chrome around for development purposes.

Lately though I haven't found myself needing to switch over to Chrome for anything devtools related. This new replay feature makes FF even more compelling (once it comes to Linux that is).

So if you haven't used FF for development recently, you should definitely give it a try.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by bogwog »

aedron wrote: post #72

I am not primarily a web developer, but I guess I don't really see it. I suppose 'rewind' would mostly be useful for Javascript applications? But in Javascript you can already debug pretty well. It's been a while, but I suppose Javascript debuggers can drop frames, like debugging other languages, so you already have a kind of rewind? Does anyone have a good example use case for this?

It's basically the same value proposition as Mozilla's rr debugger (https://rr-project.org/).

This video has a good intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytNlefY8PIE

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by dharmab »

WanderPanda wrote: post #88
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.

After struggling with GPU drivers, again, the last couple of days, I could not agree more!

I assume this was nvidia. AMD and Intel drivers are finally in a good state but nvidia is as bad as ever.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by _bxg1 »

bogwog wrote: post #173
_bxg1 wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, as I'm going back and trying to come up with specific points, I'm having a hard time. Partly it's little usability things: - There was one time when an HTTP request was failing and I couldn't figure out why, and in the Network tab Firefox wouldn't show any information about it, even the request that went out (other than the URL), whereas Chrome not only showed the headers, it surfaced that it was a 404. - T…

FF's tools used to be pretty bad compared to Chrome's, and while my main browser has always been FF I always keep Chrome around for development purposes. Lately though I haven't found myself needing to switch over to Chrome for anything devtools related. This new replay feature makes FF even more compelling (once it comes to Linux that is). So if you haven't used FF for development recently, you should definitely giv…

My last try was pretty recent, but it was also brief

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by ridiculous_fish »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #101
jakobegger wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't talk about Chrome's market share without mentioning that it was (maybe still is? I don't know) prominently advertised on the google.com homepage. Everyone who went to search Google saw the ad. It said something like "Try a faster browser" The fact that Chrome was advertised on the most popular page in the world, and especially that it was the only ad on that page, definitely made a difference in adoption. T…

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

The ad is still there, now it pushes the google app: https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/11810479664228556...

There’s also a popover div ad in gmail: https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/10810743891336806...

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by marco_craveiro »

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've been using Linux on the desktop for 20 years now (Debian mainly) and I think things have never been as good as they are now. Its not important (to me) that there are only ~2% desktop users, just that FOSS continues to evolve at the same pace as it has...

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by plorntus »

jrm2k6 wrote: post #164

It might just be me but enabling the option and clicking and the recording button just attempt to reload the page and I get a blank page. Not sure what is supposed to happen.

Yeah happens to me too, guess either I'm missing an obvious button or it's slightly broken on some machines (which is to be expected).
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