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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by juandopazo »

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…

You can do this in the current dev tools by setting a conditional breakpoint. Conditional breakpoints allow you to write an expression which you can force to always be falsy. For example, "console.log()" returns undefined so it's falsy and it won't actually break.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by technomancy »

sebasmagri wrote: post #208
technomancy wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to have FF profiles as dotfiles that I can actually check into source control and use reliably. I blew a couple hours a few months ago trying to make FF fit into my existing system of dotfiles in git and it was extremely frustrating. Every other program I use lets me check config into git, but FF insists on storing config data into profiles with randomly-generated names. It's very resistant to automation…

I'd recommend using Firefox Sync to store your preferences and keep it synched across all your foxes.

I understand this is an option, but it's super frustrating that the FF profiles mechanism wasn't built the right way from the ground up.

There are significant advantages to having all your config in dotfiles beyond just keeping everything in one place: easy branching, getting rollback for free, human-readable diffs, etc.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by cturhan »

rkwz wrote: post #91
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? I wonder where do you draw a line for a developer oriented browser. Is a good 'line' be tools for 'whatever loads on page'? Since we already have color picker etc, I think good candidates are * Onscreen ruler * Gradient generator * Builtin JSfiddle * CSS sprite generator * Image to base64 * JS/HTML/CSS formatter * JSON tools - tree-viewer/formatter/validator * XML tools - tree-viewer/formatt…

++1 for JS/HTML/CSS formatter and json tools

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by jsmeaton »

elsamuko wrote: post #204
Dagger2 wrote: post #201

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> 4. And, for all of you who hated Australis, a compact theme with square tabs. Right, because that's totally the problem with Australis. Nothing to do with screwing up customization or the general theme, treating users like idiots etc. It's the rounded tabs!

Try vertical tabs: https://github.com/darrinhenein/VerticalTabs They are imho much more useful on todays widescreen displays than normal tabs.

I wish the same thing existed for Chrome, but I've been unable to find anything remotely useful.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by cturhan »

alxndr wrote: post #192
maratd wrote: post #135

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How?

Haven't used it in a while, but IIRC in the Sources tab of Chrome's Dev Tools, right-clicking a directory brings up a context menu with an "Add folder to workspace" option, which has you pick a local directory to map to the source directory. Then if you edit a file in the dev tools and command-S, it'll save that file where it appears in the local directory you picked.

And also, it creates a history so you can revert to any version whenever you want.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by lucideer »

_jomo wrote: post #60

If you don't like setting up your Browser again, you can go to about:preferences#general and uncheck Allow Firefox Developer Edition and Firefox to run at the same time This will cause Firefox Dev to use the Firefox profile with all your settings and Addons.

Thank you for this! That was quite a panicky first-run experience until I read this comment ...

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by cturhan »

jbm1991 wrote: post #163
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 miss…

I feel the same on that. FF should present that like a folder tree.
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