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I wonder how this is positioned compared to Bird Eats Bug and LogRocket/FullStory
Over time we will be adding more tools for developers. It will be interesting to see how Firefox will approach this compared to us.
The 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.
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Small user base to test?
Actually probably Mozilla’s largest user base
On Linux, Firefox has a bigger percentage (>30%), but (desktop) Linux is much less popular than macOS so in absolute terms they have the fewest users there.
I had built a poor mans version of this where I worked with puppeteer for automated tests. It'd basically record the full dim any time it changed, along with console logs, network request metadata, images and css and output it as a test recording. You could then view that and walk through it in an Electron app.
This'll blow it out of the water. I hope for e2e testing's sake that linux support comes soon.
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When that platform is Mac, certainly. For some mysterious reason you don't see complaints about Linux-only utilities :)
you can virtualize linux, you cannot virtualize macos. no, downloading sketchy images or hacking your virtualization software does not count.
You can, and it’s licensed to.
Since Lion:
> (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software.
No hassle support page on VMware site:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1000131
EDIT: Amusingly on topic with gist of thread above, anger about a dev tool launched for MacOS, this fact with citations from license and support page from VMware garnered instant down votes.
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Actually probably Mozilla’s largest user base
Why 'probably'? According to the stats I could find [1], Firefox has around 5% of Mac users, and around 9% of Windows users. Windows is Firefox's biggest platform, both in absolute terms and as a fraction of that platform's users. On Linux, Firefox has a bigger percentage (>30%), but (desktop) Linux is much less popular than macOS so in absolute terms they have the fewest users there. [1]: https://netmarketshare.com/
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Actually probably Mozilla’s largest user base
Why 'probably'? According to the stats I could find [1], Firefox has around 5% of Mac users, and around 9% of Windows users. Windows is Firefox's biggest platform, both in absolute terms and as a fraction of that platform's users. On Linux, Firefox has a bigger percentage (>30%), but (desktop) Linux is much less popular than macOS so in absolute terms they have the fewest users there. [1]: https://netmarketshare.com/
51% Windows 10
27% Windows 7
6% Windows 8
6% macOS
11% Other (Linux, BSDs, etc)
I think the Firefox Nightly, Developer Edition, and Beta channels have a slightly higher share of macOS and Linux users, but not much. There are a lot of Windows users out there; you just don't see them at JS conferences. :)
Why "Download Firefox Nightly for macOS"? Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?
This blew me away a bit. Is MacOS this popular in the Web frontend crowd? I always felt that the price/quality ratio was way off with MacOS, compared to a good regular laptop. By good I mean top 10% ranked by price/quality. Even if it wasn't, Apple's general hostility towards consumers is infuriating. Right-to-repair is a banal example.
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That's exactly right Brian Hackett collaborated early on with ROC. Here are the basic principles of Replay ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We... ). In a nutshell, replay records Firefox's OS system calls, so that that Firefox can read from the recording when replaying.
For what it's worth, the DMTCP [1] user-space checkpoint/restore system does that (and more). C/R is a way of doing coarse batch-based reversible debugging, typically of distributed HPC programs, and FReD [2] is a(n unfortunately dead) reversible debugger using DMTCP record/replay. 1. http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/ 2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5204
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That's exactly right Brian Hackett collaborated early on with ROC. Here are the basic principles of Replay ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We... ). In a nutshell, replay records Firefox's OS system calls, so that that Firefox can read from the recording when replaying.
For what it's worth, the DMTCP [1] user-space checkpoint/restore system does that (and more). C/R is a way of doing coarse batch-based reversible debugging, typically of distributed HPC programs, and FReD [2] is a(n unfortunately dead) reversible debugger using DMTCP record/replay. 1. http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/ 2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5204
The best way to think about this is when the user adds a logpoint, they'll immediately see the logs in the console.
We hope that making logging much better is a great way to help people better understand the recording.