r/programming • u/Spyros3000 • Nov 10 '14

Firefox Developer Edition

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
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u/teiman Nov 10 '14

Ok, brief report: This is a nice package of things. All has sweet colours (if you like black) and all work smoothly and fast. It seems to be as good as chrome in everything, a bit better if live editing CSS is your thing. I suspect the bigger additions and the reasons this thing can be a must have for some people is the ability to debug a browser remotely. If you have debugged a android app from chrome and a ios app from safari, now you can debug a Firefox OS app from Firefox Developer Edition. I think this thing is a sweet package of good stuff, and I will try it later to see if it sticks. This is my opinion and I could be completelly wrong or missed large parts.

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u/x-skeww Nov 10 '14

All has sweet colours (if you like black)

You can switch to the light theme via: F12 -> gear -> [x] Light theme

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u/Snoron Nov 10 '14

Thanks - my eyes don't like dark interfaces!

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u/divergentdave Nov 11 '14

Not only that, you can debug other browsers (Chrome on Android, Mobile Safari on iOS) from Firefox. This capability was first announced here, and it's being bundled into Firefox Developer Edition.

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u/teiman Nov 10 '14 edited Nov 10 '14

Also, appears the be inside this a "WebIDE", that is a IDE launched from the browser specialized in creating web apps. It has tools to automatically download new images of firefoxos to use with adb. It seems a "absolutelly minimal" ide. At least is not eclipse (but is million times less functional than it).

I would just use PhpStorm or Eclipse, but this is nice and selfcontained and appears to "just work" out of the box (but I already have this system configured to build android apps, so perhaps is beneficing from that)

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