Macos only for now
Firefox Replay
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Re: Firefox Replay
#212Maybe once they figure out how to monetize the data
Chrome's dev tools are so far beyond the competitions that this joke is a non-starter. When Chrome does add this capability(strange they haven't added it to date given the prior art from years ago), I can see it being used by actual devs inside Google and thus being actually useful. Contrast that with Firefox dev tools which seem to fall behind the priority list compared to new shiny flashy tech projects they concoct…
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Re: Firefox Replay
#213Maybe once they figure out how to monetize the data
Please don't post flamebait here. It degrades discussion and evokes worse from others.
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#215As 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.
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#216Maybe once they figure out how to monetize the data
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#217Earlier 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…
Not sure what you mean, but as an anecdote I quit using desktop Linux years ago and whenever I go to developer conferences, the majority are on MacOS and I think I see more people on Windows 10 than on Linux. That people wouldn't buy into Apple stuff is a big assumption, because we did do just that, for better or worse. Speaking of which, I see many more successful commercial desktop apps for MacOS than for Windows o…
You can trivially pick out the macs visually how are you picking out who is running Linux?
Re: Firefox Replay
#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not? A huge portion of developers uses Macs and windows support is coming at some point. Better to get an actual feedback from the developers.
People on HN don't seem to like it when some other companies start their product from one platform.
When that platform is Mac, certainly. For some mysterious reason you don't see complaints about Linux-only utilities :)
Re: Firefox Replay
#219The 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.
https://birdeatsbug.com is great for that kind of thing
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#220Why "Download Firefox Nightly for macOS"? Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We... > Currently only macOS is supported. As for why - no idea.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658967 responds to that.