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Future of Firefox DevTools

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Re: Future of Firefox DevTools

#42
The timeline needs to show protocol. Btw this already exists in Firebug. Why duplicate effort? I'm sure this hass been asked before. But why have devtools instead of improving firebug? (Performance?) What will happen to firebug in the long run ?

Edit:

* In inspect view, can we have a search HTML function like firebug?

* Also in inspect view, a way to disable the display of PATH.

* Increase the font size of html/css rules etc

Re: Future of Firefox DevTools

#43
post #15

The right-hand-side docking looks absolutely amazing ( http://i.imgur.com/duQOXq7.png ). I have another bit of feedback. The web console has three positions available: Above, Below, and Window. With Firebug, I like to have the console open in another monitor and give the browser viewport maximum screen real estate in front of me. Firefox's web console doesn't let me do this because in "Window" mode it doesn't quite a…

FYI, right side docking is available in Chrome. I had no idea for a very long time.

Re: Future of Firefox DevTools

#44
post #9

At the moment, I really like Chrome because I just find the behavior of the Omnibar superior to Firefox's Awesomebar. But hot damn, you're making me question loyalties on my dev machine.

Haha, I just switched from Chrome to Firefox because I hate how Chrome prioritizes Google Search over my previous history. It's idiotic. Here, let me show you a clear example. http://i.imgur.com/uNsh7Yv.png Firefox clearly has the superior bar.

I've personally internalized the downdown for going to things I've gone to before.

However, I do brand new searches constantly. Often 20+ a day, that often look similar to older searches, but aren't quite.

Now, whether I've developed that behavior because of Chrome, or because it works well for me, is a question for itself.

Also, since I'm here- anyone get frequent fuckups lately in the Chrome omnibar, not searching what you put in, to instead search something you HAVE searched before?

For example, before, I've searched "javascript array"

But this time, I am wanting to search "javascript string concatenation". I type that into Chrome, hit enter...

...up pops the search results for "javascript array". It started about a month ago, and is really annoying.

Re: Future of Firefox DevTools

#46
The jsfiddle style looks good, but how does that work with multiple files on the page? Do you select the files you want to work with?

Not sure if it's possible, but I think it'd be cool to highlight which lines have been live edited.

One bit of feedback about editing CSS: it'd be great if, when editing a property, using the arrow keys cycled through the default properties. I.e. border-style goes through solid, dotted, none, etc.

Looking great!

Re: Future of Firefox DevTools

#47
While the number 1 suggestion sounds great on paper, isn't anyone else concerned about the security implications?

The ability for the browser to modify files directly on my workstation outside of caching folders sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Re: Future of Firefox DevTools

#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can deactive this in chrome://settings/. I did it after your post. I find it also annoying.

What setting do you change?

[] Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar

Maybe that one.

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