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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by bryanlarsen »

ZenoArrow wrote: post #63
warcode wrote: post #52

Will this version survive months of usage with multiple open tabs without performance deteriorating massively like the regular firefox? I left FF after my 10th profile reset / reinstall to get back to "normal" performance.

I swear this type of comment is becoming like a meme, it's pretty much repeated on every HN thread about Firefox. The response is standard too... Electrolysis. Wait for it. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Roadmap

I'm kind of hoping that Eloctrolysis never becomes main-line. Right now I have a browser that isolates misbehaving web pages (Chrome) and a browser that allows me to have a million open tabs simultaneously (Firefox).

If I could only choose one I'd choose the browser that isolates misbehaving web pages but both is even better.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by nubs »

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 love the ability to easily spin up multiple profiles at one time. Having the separate profile for Dev Edition should help, but sometimes I want a few others as well (depending on the task at hand).

Ideally, It'd be best to be able to open a new tab inside of a different profile and just be able to tab back and forth between the different profiles.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by fiatjaf »

I've always used Chrome since I started developing, and I liked their Developer Tools. Since I switched to Firefox four months ago I've had a lot of trouble with FF DevTools:

* debugging is too slow (or my computer is weak, but Chrome DevTools run smoothly); * debugging is very slow; * the debugger has some unpredictable behavior, like stopping at all calls that lead to some error, when I expected it to stop at the error properly.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by youngtaff »

callahad wrote: post #71
youngtaff wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it inspect Safari on iOS 8? (Google's ios-webkit-debug-proxy doesn't appear to yet)

Sure does! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH0R10Ga4Hs

So did you start with ios-webkit-debug-proxy?

If so can you contribute the changes back - WebPagetest relies on this for driving iOS Safari

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by callahad »

anonfunction wrote: post #170

What is this "hello" thing I see in the top right as the smiley chat icon? I've started a conversation, here's the link: https://hello.firefox.com/#call/fmX1j62g-P4

It's an experiment with WebRTC -- you can start peer-to-peer voice/video calls with it. No accounts or special software needed. Just modern browsers. :)

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by maaaats »

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 like to be able to copy the JSON received in the network tab. As it is now, I only get to see a tree-view and can't easily copy the full JSON as text.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by maaaats »

wahsd wrote: post #136
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…

CSS Media emulation like in Chrome. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that feature is still not included even though there are feature requests for it. I am interested in it in order to emulate print.css . I'm sure it's not the highest priority.

You have print preview. No easy way to inspect/debug in it, though.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by willlma »

Brakenshire wrote: post #168
jimmyhmiller wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I use compass to watch the folder where my SCSS files are stored and compile automatically on save. That way I can use mapping to find the relevant SCSS, edit it in the browser, and save it to view the changes. It isn't as convenient as seeing the changes before save, but it's pretty close.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by kibwen »

bad_user wrote: post #148

Wow, so Firefox's Preferences panel is being redesigned, or is this a "Developer Edition" thing? I like it - hopefully they'll also add searching capabilities. Yes, like in Chrome, that was a good design choice. On the theme, I personally don't like dark themes for my browser. But I like that this theme is space efficient, so I hope to see an equivalent for the stable Firefox, as I for one would use it, but please ma…

The preference panel redesign has been a long time coming (years, it feels like), and yes it does look fantastic compared to the prior tabbed popup window.

Also, you can get a light version of the same compact theme by opening the devtools (Ctrl+Shift+I), clicking the gear in the upper-right, and selecting the "Light theme" radio button. It looks great!

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