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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by callahad »

youngtaff wrote: post #58
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…

Does it inspect Safari on iOS 8? (Google's ios-webkit-debug-proxy doesn't appear to yet)

Sure does! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH0R10Ga4Hs

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by ZenoArrow »

warp wrote: post #50
callahad wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are new features (tools adapter, side-by-side profiles, compact theme, developer-friendly default preferences). But what's larger than any of that is the change in Mozilla's policy / conception of the pre-Beta channel. This is very much a v0 offering, of course, but it's an indication that we genuinely want to take developer feedback seriously and co-design this with you. We've given ourselves the freedom to sh…

Hm, so if I develop on this I will still have to test in the regular stable Firefox release, that seems unfortunate. Having more tools in a developer edition compared to the regular version of the browser seems fine, but at least for me I would like run it with the same rendering engine my users are likely to run.

I don't understand the problem. Responsible web developers test across multiple browsers anyway, and this edition allows you to hook the developer edition tools into other browsers.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by atom-morgan »

tumblen wrote: post #59
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…

One of the most powerful tools in my chest is Firefile ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefile/ ). Firefile allows you to edit CSS in firebug and save to your stylsheet right from there. It's incredible how this smooths out my workflow and I can't work without it. Firefile, though, doesn't appear to be in development anymore and it's latest release is broken. (I had to make some manual edits to get…

Would you be able to share your edits?

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by acqq »

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…

Wait, so this "Edition" will deliver the things that aren't even Beta? Is that only for development-only tools or also for features which will appear in "normal" Firefox?

I think I'd prefer to develop for the current state of my user base and not for some "maybe it will be so" target.

Can you please clarify what the "new rules" are?

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by Siecje »

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…

In the "Responsive Design Mode" you should be able to see the size in ems.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by publicfig »

tbassetto wrote: post #28

I think it really should not prompt to be the default browser when you launch it (and maybe never show this prompt like Chrome Canary). A colleague had a weird race condition (I guess) with this prompt + the "how-to" overlays and Firefox Developer Edition stopped responding to clicks 3 seconds after launching it… Kudos for using a different profile than the classic Firefox/Nightly :)

I had the same issue, the overlays hid the message and I wasn't able to tell that the default browser message was there in the first place (OS X)

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by cadecairos »

philo23 wrote: post #57

I managed to get this when downloading Firefox Aurora over the weekend while reinstalling my OS. I wasn't expecting the dark UI when I opened it. I personally found it a little garish and I couldn't immediately see a way to turn it off. Anyone know if there's a way to switch it back?

You can change the theme in the customization menu (there's a theme drop down on the bottom left), or by using the about:addons and going to "appearance"

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by [deleted] »

atom-morgan wrote: post #73
tumblen wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the most powerful tools in my chest is Firefile ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefile/ ). Firefile allows you to edit CSS in firebug and save to your stylsheet right from there. It's incredible how this smooths out my workflow and I can't work without it. Firefile, though, doesn't appear to be in development anymore and it's latest release is broken. (I had to make some manual edits to get…

Would you be able to share your edits?

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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by bnycum »

grk wrote: post #13

For those not liking the dark UI, you can switch by opening the dev tools, clicking the gear icon on the right and selecting "light theme".

Thanks. As someone who isn't even a Firefox user I would have never found this. The dark UI was tough for me to read.
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