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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#61

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…

From the top of my mind:

1. HTTP Request builder (think cURL with a nicer GUI and the ability to save presets);

2. Web Proxy, able to "stop-and-modify" requests (think Fiddler or Charles);

3. Network conditions simulator for throttling, packet dropping and limited bandwidth, with profiles (e.g. GPRS);

4. Local Mock REST API, with a few predefined endpoints (e.g. /users/) + the ability to create new ones (with configurable values such as random integers between X and Y or a random string which is a valid e-mail);

5. Multi-touch simulator (with a modifier key);

6. A usability test facilitator, able to create test scripts and automatically record timing and extra information (e.g. define a task that ends when user clicks the element with id X; when said user clicks #X, you annotate the time, the number of misclicks, etc). You could also implement this for static images, with clickable regions. I would love you for this one.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#62
post #9

Here's the prettier link to download: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

I believe this is the stub (~400Ko) Sniffing my laptop gave me this http://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/nightl... Felt weirdly generic since the name didn't indicate any special edition, but I ran it and it says developer edition. ---- tl;dr In case someone needs an offline installer, grab that url.

I hope your laptop smells nice.

I'm sure you meant sniffing your network traffic?

Edit: Oh man I think I've hung out with the Python crowd for too long I think their rancor is starting to rub off on me ;)

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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post #52

Will this version survive months of usage with multiple open tabs without performance deteriorating massively like the regular firefox? I left FF after my 10th profile reset / reinstall to get back to "normal" performance.

I swear this type of comment is becoming like a meme, it's pretty much repeated on every HN thread about Firefox.

The response is standard too... Electrolysis. Wait for it.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Roadmap

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#64

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…

Since it's named WebIDE, what's your plans for it in future?

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#65

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…

2 and 4 alone are reason enough to use it, nice work.

EDIT: Wow after trying it out it seems like a long-time bug I've been experiencing has been fixed, I'm willing to bet it's not just the clean install either because I tried resetting Firefox multiple times before and it hadn't helped.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#66

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 Postman-alike API builder.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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post #64

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…

Since it's named WebIDE, what's your plans for it in future?

The WebIDE is currently pretty targeted at mobile web apps, especially on Firefox OS. We want it to be a more generally applicable tool for authoring web content.

The Tools Adapter that lets you debug Chrome/Android or Safari/iOS tabs from the WebIDE is a first step in that direction.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#69

I love firefox, but this looks like a simple rebranding of the experimental beta version. If that version is going to be the same version that regular users get 12 weeks from now, it's hardly "tailored" for developers. Though I'm assuming getting rid of "unstable beta" marker gets a whole new group of unknowing beta testers.

The interface is for developers and will not be the same when in the stable channel.
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