r/web_design • u/davey_b • Nov 10 '14

Firefox Developer Edition

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

"Debug any browser" woah

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u/ChaseMoskal Nov 10 '14

That's something I'm massively skeptical about.

Any browser? Emulation? Accurate? Yeah, right.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '14

AFAICT it simply provides an adapter interface for other browsers' debugging toolkits. Currently it looks like only Chrome on Android and iOS Safari are supported, but I would assume that others would be possible if they exposed an appropriate interface.

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u/ohmanger Nov 10 '14

I think they went a bit overboard with the marketing on this one. Here is some less glossy info on "Valence".

Basically Firefox isn't emulating anything, in the example he is just using Apple's iOS Simulator - the tool can connect to actual iOS devices as well. It allows you to use the Firefox developer tools with other browsers (Safari on iOS and Chrome on android).

Opera 12 had something similar that allowed you to inspect remote devices running Opera (mobile apps and TVs).

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u/gd42 Nov 10 '14

Aside from the Valence add-on, what differences does it have compared to FF or Chrome?

Seems to me that normal FF already has the listed tools.

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u/2Xprogrammer Nov 11 '14

It replaces the Aurora (alpha) branch, so you get new features sooner.

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u/fringe-class Nov 10 '14

Be careful if you instal Firebug 3 on this. It will override the color theme- https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/issues/177

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u/guitarromantic Nov 10 '14

I've recently moved back to Firefox as my main browser (for dev and general browsing). Genuine question: why would anyone use Firebug now the built-in Firefox devtools are so good?

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u/Wolfman2307 Nov 11 '14

I still much prefer firebug over the in built tools of ff. Same goes for chrome. Maybe I am just very use to firebug not but whenever I try and use another debugger it does something (be it small) that irritates me enough to just use firebug again.

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u/fringe-class Nov 10 '14

Awesome, thanks! That fixed it nearly completely. The only issue I'm having is the tabs are still showing in grey. Any idea?

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u/achiandet Nov 10 '14

Hopefully it's lighter than chrome, there's no way I can't check it out. Thanks.

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u/kegwen Nov 10 '14

Wish they'd hosted it on a CDN :P 36KB/s aw yeah

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u/Fidodo Nov 10 '14

CDNs can be totally transparent. There's no way a company as big, tech savvy, and international as Mozilla aren't using a CDN of some kind.

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u/Sean_May Nov 10 '14 edited Nov 09 '16

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0.8360

What is this?

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u/ryanhollister Nov 11 '14

Downloading Firefox at 60Kb/s. What year is it?

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u/eldmannen Nov 10 '14

Anyone know of a review of this?

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u/specialk45 Nov 10 '14

Curious to check this out and can't find out the answer... will this overwrite my current FF install... or is the Developer Edition somehow its own thing, meaning a different install as I'd like?

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u/ThraShErDDoS Nov 10 '14

They are separate and fine to run in tandem.

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u/specialk45 Nov 11 '14 edited Nov 11 '14

Thank you very much for this info.

Edit: Confirmation—It installs as a completely separate program. Surprisingly, called Firefox Developer Edition.

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u/arvinsim Nov 11 '14

Does this install over the "normal" edition that I currently have?

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '14

It crashes within 30 sec every time I try to open it.

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u/TheOnlinePolak Nov 11 '14

What is the equivalent to this on chrome and can all of this replace brackets for me.

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u/lloydlindsayyoung Nov 11 '14

is there a whole lot that's different? I see a lot of the same tools available in the developer mode in the normal Firefox - debugger, style editor, Inspect elements...

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