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Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by danneu » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 8:49 PM UTC

acomjean wrote: post #4

wonder if it will play nice with pentadactyl or vimperator or any other of the keyboard based browsing add-ons. Looks good though.

Plays nicely. Just pops you into insert-mode when you bring up the devbar and pops you back into normal when you exit.

Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by BHSPitMonkey » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 9:15 PM UTC

Who downscales a screencast to 480p before uploading to YouTube? It would be a much better demo to watch if they hadn't.

Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by mariusmg » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 9:25 PM UTC

Shift + F2 opens the command line but pressing Shift +F2 again doesn't close it. That's.....unexpected (and annoying).

Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by thristian » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 9:26 PM UTC

nsmartt wrote: post #19

If Firefox had a GUI that didn't rely on the window manager's decorations (a la chrome), I would switch in a heartbeat. As it stands, using Firefox on Linux (Openbox) feels like a huge step back from Chrome.

That's interesting. Chrome's lack-of-integration with the rest of my desktop is one of the things that keeps me away.

Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by state » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 9:37 PM UTC

cicloid wrote: post #11

Lately Firefox started looking more atractive again. Mostly because of Chrome's feature creep. But probably I'm just overthinking it.

I agree. There's something good going on over there. Seems like it's a good thing to be under pressure from Chrome.

Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by st3fan » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 10:41 PM UTC

sumone4life wrote: post #16

cicloid wrote: post #11

Lately Firefox started looking more atractive again. Mostly because of Chrome's feature creep. But probably I'm just overthinking it.

Made the switch today because of this, and a few other features and improvements since I last used firefox.

What improvements did you like most?

Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by st3fan » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 10:42 PM UTC

mariusmg wrote: post #23

Shift + F2 opens the command line but pressing Shift +F2 again doesn't close it. That's.....unexpected (and annoying).

Please file a bug for a feature request.

Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by oftenwrong » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 10:52 PM UTC

nsmartt wrote: post #19

If Firefox had a GUI that didn't rely on the window manager's decorations (a la chrome), I would switch in a heartbeat. As it stands, using Firefox on Linux (Openbox) feels like a huge step back from Chrome.

In what way does it rely on the WM's decorations?

Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by ch0wn » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

cicloid wrote: post #11

Lately Firefox started looking more atractive again. Mostly because of Chrome's feature creep. But probably I'm just overthinking it.

> Mostly because of Chrome's feature creep.

I think I'm actually quite sensitive to that, but haven't felt about Chrome that way yet. Could you explain what features you mean in particular?

Re: Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

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Post by Spittie » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 11:10 PM UTC

nsmartt wrote: post #19

If Firefox had a GUI that didn't rely on the window manager's decorations (a la chrome), I would switch in a heartbeat. As it stands, using Firefox on Linux (Openbox) feels like a huge step back from Chrome.

You can probably get something like chrome using "Hide Caption Titlebar Plus" (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/hide-caption-tit...) to hide the titlebar and put the windows button directly into the window. You can even use Stylish to customize those button (so they'll fit your theme).