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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by rkwz »

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…

> What tools do you need?

I wonder where do you draw a line for a developer oriented browser. Is a good 'line' be tools for 'whatever loads on page'?

Since we already have color picker etc, I think good candidates are

* Onscreen ruler

* Gradient generator

* Builtin JSfiddle

* CSS sprite generator

* Image to base64

* JS/HTML/CSS formatter

* JSON tools - tree-viewer/formatter/validator

* XML tools - tree-viewer/formatter/validator/xpath

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

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Post by kibwen »

UncleCarbs wrote: post #56

Am I the only one here Who doesn't get how Dev Edition is different to normal firefox?

AIUI, it replaces the Aurora channel in the Firefox release schedule (which historically went Nightly -> Aurora -> Beta -> Release). In addition, whereas previously all experimental browser features would be held back in Nightly until fully-baked, this new channel will receive experimental developer tools from Nightly while still holding back all experimental non-developer features, so that the browsing experience itself isn't affected.

(Also, it has a darker and more compact visual theme by default that echoes that of the built-in devtools.)

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#93

Post by kibwen »

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…

As a longtime fan of the dark theme in the Firefox devtools, I'm enamored by the new theme of the developer edition. But you really should document how to turn it off for the people who don't like it. :)

EDIT: Ah, I see there's a link to restore the theme at the bottom of the welcome page.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#94

Post by sergiotapia »

Unfortunately, I can't acces HackerNews with this new browser. Just a heads up to the team, liking the browser so far!

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to news.ycombinator.com. The OCSP response contains out-of-date information. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_old_response)

    The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
    Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#96

Post by zenocon »

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?

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#98

Post by bdunbar »

sergiotapia wrote: post #94

Unfortunately, I can't acces HackerNews with this new browser. Just a heads up to the team, liking the browser so far! Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to news.ycombinator.com. The OCSP response contains out-of-date information. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_old_response) The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Pl…

It's working for me.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#99

Post by kibwen »

rdebeasi wrote: post #41

Exciting stuff! If you're already on Aurora, when you auto-update to developer edition, you'll switch over to the new dev profile and your bookmarks and settings will be gone. You can get at those by opening the profile manager and switching back to the default profile, or by using a stable version of Firefox. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

In my case this was unnecessary and the update to Developer Edition preserved everything. Might have something to do with the fact that I already make use of multiple profiles.

EDIT: Wait! The default profile was used when clicking "Restart" from within the updater, but when closing and reopening the browser manually it did indeed start up with a new profile.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#100

Post by roller »

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…

A simple way to edit Host: header so that it doesn't necessarily match the url host part used to get to the site. Debugging name based virtual hosts configs via editing host files is a huge pain point for me.
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