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Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by davet91 »

yani wrote: post #155
leshow wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux these days, if you just want a working desktop experience, requires no configuration. You pop in an ubuntu usb drive and install, done. It will often run better than the version of windows that the machine actually shipped with. Myself, personally, I stopped running anything but linux more than a decade ago. All I remember from windows is how often it broke in ways that were completely unfixable.

Until you need to use an external device - camera, microphone, speakers, printer, scanner... most of the game mice keyboards...

You can get every of those devices with Linux support with a bit of research before buying. It's not the fault of Linux if the manufacturer of your hardware doesn't care about the platform.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by davidy123 »

stef25 wrote: post #165
leshow wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux these days, if you just want a working desktop experience, requires no configuration. You pop in an ubuntu usb drive and install, done. It will often run better than the version of windows that the machine actually shipped with. Myself, personally, I stopped running anything but linux more than a decade ago. All I remember from windows is how often it broke in ways that were completely unfixable.

Firefox and Chromium crash constantly on a fresh install of Ubuntu 18 on my Thinkpad T420. Only excuse I can think of is that it's an old machine. I want to switch but every time I kick the tires I'm baffled at how quickly it blows up.

It really sounds like a hardware problem. Linux excels on older hardware.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by jasonlaster11 »

Thanks for the feedback!

Replay is in the user-research and validation phase and still quite experimental.

firefox-replay.com is a work in progress. We're still sorting out the best way to communicate record and replay debugging and the new use cases.

We'll share more on @firefoxDevTools when we have something to report.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by ihuman »

What's going on? I just see a block of text next to a static image.

"Replay is an early experiment. We'll let you know on @FirefoxDevTools when it's ready for input."

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by Kaveren »

ihuman wrote: post #225

What's going on? I just see a block of text next to a static image. "Replay is an early experiment. We'll let you know on @FirefoxDevTools when it's ready for input."

I think they saw that it got a lot of attention on HN and weren't in a stage with the product where they were ready for the corresponding feedback.

For anyone who missed what it was, it allows you to derterministically record and replay your browsing for debugging purposes, and you can export these recordings to others.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by ihuman »

Kaveren wrote: post #226
ihuman wrote: post #225

What's going on? I just see a block of text next to a static image. "Replay is an early experiment. We'll let you know on @FirefoxDevTools when it's ready for input."

I think they saw that it got a lot of attention on HN and weren't in a stage with the product where they were ready for the corresponding feedback. For anyone who missed what it was, it allows you to derterministically record and replay your browsing for debugging purposes, and you can export these recordings to others.

I just looked it up on the internet archive and saw the old website. I think they should have kept the old one, since the new website has almost no information at all.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191128111509/https://firefox-r...

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by quickthrower2 »

_bxg1 wrote: post #157

Very cool, but I'd much prefer they spend their time bringing Firefox's dev tools up to par with Chrome's first. I've tried several times to switch to FF completely, but every time I end up switching back on my work computer because of the dev tools.

It might be that you are simply "used" to the chrome tools. I actually found FF doing better with typescript source maps ins some circumstances (e.g. resolving "this"), but to be fair sourcemaps are often problematic on both browsers.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by hoten »

phoe-krk wrote: post #4
devit wrote: post #3

Why "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.

Because it's experimental and you have to start somewhere.

Re: Firefox Replay

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

yowlingcat wrote: post #139
BoppreH wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like Mozilla is applying the concepts they developed for their C/C++ debugger, rr ( https://rr-project.org ).

Exactly what I was thinking. I wonder when Chrome's going release their version!

Depends whether anybody writes it for them, or whether Google has to make it on their own.
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