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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by andrewjwu »

nareshv wrote: post #249
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…

built-in "firecookie" would be great addon.

+1 for Firecookie, super convenient to read and modify cookies on a site-by-site basis and one of the few reasons I still have Firebug installed albeit I always dread how much slower it is vs. the built-in developer tools.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by bzbarsky »

kgtm wrote: post #118
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…

Firefox is unusable for developers with poor eyesight that use OS-level accessibility features such as high contrast on recent versions of Windows. There is an open bug but no love: [ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790706 ]. Firefox forces high-contrast colors, completely destroying HTML rendering, with no option to disable this behavior. Using a high contrast theme in Windows doesn't mean i don't want…

I moved that bug to a place where someone who might know something about the matter might actually see it...

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by chrift »

chrift wrote: post #280

The only issue I have with the inspector tools in its current guise, is the fact you can't open an XHR request logged in the console in the network tab so you can view the nicer layout of parameters and stuff. Which is really annoying and the main reason I stick with firebug.

Lack of being able to format a JSON response from the console is my main issue with this.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by pwneth »

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…

Inspect element is not working properly. Will this be fixed? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ucHgQ2PvQ

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by zaphoyd »

zimbatm wrote: post #107
zenocon wrote: post #96

Doesn't look like I can debug websockets? Chrome's network tab allows you to see websocket frames, but you have to navigate away from it and back to it again to refresh it -- which is a pain. I'm not seeing where/how to view frames in the network tab here, but perhaps I missed it?

Last time I checked Firefox didn't support showing the websocket frames

I end up doing much of my WebSocket app development in Chrome for this reason alone. I'd love to see WebSocket message inspection in the FF dev tools.

I'd also like to see the tools go farther with minimal formatters for messages, particularly messages in JSON format.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by rythie »

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…

On HTTPS where the warning triangle comes up due to mixed content, tell us what the insecure resources were.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by tobr »

alanh wrote: post #175

The annoying experience of launching this for the first time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585522 Direct link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/2O3M10153r1h3A1P3T3T/...

I thought it was a bug in my install. You can't even close the top-most tour window, because of the covered prompt.

Apparently, the wide button where all the text is hidden sets Firefox as default browser. I accidentally clicked it when trying to give the prompt focus. Thankfully, OS X asked me to confirm that I wanted to do this.

I'm not sure what's worse, purposefully tricking me into setting default browser by hiding the text of the prompt, or starting with such a buggy first-run experience!

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by technomancy »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #258
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…

You can use the -profile switch to direct Firefox to use a specific directory for its profile. We utilize this for Firefox Portable at PortableApps.com. Incidentally, if you're on Windows, you can actually check all of Firefox Portable into source control since it runs in a single directory. You'll get 'changes' each time its run from a new location, of course.

I feel like I tried this, but it was a while ago, so I'm a bit fuzzy. I'll give it a shot; thanks.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by thatmiddleway »

pwneth wrote: post #284
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…

Inspect element is not working properly. Will this be fixed? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ucHgQ2PvQ

I'm having the same issue. For now, you can click the first icon on the left of the devtools top bar and then click on the element you want to inspect.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by Superia »

I don't know if this belongs here, but my Aurora installation automatically replaced itself with Developer Edition, which would be fine if it did not also delete all history, bookmarks, saved passwords, plugins etc. Is there anyway to get that stuff back?
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