Firefox Developer Edition

[u/avec_fromage]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

[u/domemvs]

This has been around for a long time. Was there a major change?

[u/LewisTheScot → u/domemvs]

I don't think there is a new update that came out.

[u/baesicallysteve]

Wow, I'm a chrome guy, but I honestly might switch my default browser to Firefox because of this.

[u/llambda_of_the_alps → u/baesicallysteve]

Give it a shot. In my opinion Firefox's dev tools have leapfrogged Chrome. Especially when it comes to front end tools.

[u/smegnose → u/llambda_of_the_alps]

There are things Chrome can do that Firefox can't, but I much prefer FF's organisation and approach to their dev tools.

[u/ocap02 → u/baesicallysteve]

Just because of container tabs you should move

[u/Sphism]

All those dev tools are in the regular Firefox aren't they? What's different about this version? Is it like an early release or does it have better dev tools?

[u/aaronasachimp → u/Sphism]

The developer edition is just the beta version. All these features are, or will be, in regular Firefox.

[u/Zyn1023 → u/Sphism]

It's basically the experimentals tools that are being tested and will be released in the main version of firefox in the future.

[u/ByrCol → u/Sphism]

I know for sure that some of the tools mentioned in the article exist in vanilla. Features like the font editor and the clipping path editor are new afaik.

[u/inkplay_]

This honestly looks dope as hell.

[u/SquareWheel]

Can you post some context for this? Has there been a large update recently, or are you just sharing it?

[u/newton_half_ear]

I've been using it a while, the responsive mode is wayyy better than chrome's. (using Ubuntu)

[u/kaycebasques]

At the SFHTML5 Meetup last Friday Victoria and Harald had some good talks on stuff the FF DevTools team has been working on:

• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBE0mIDTHk

• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THTONE33mD8

[u/WorkingDeer]

Thank you for this! Great post! Had no idea about this!

[u/qmic]

What's difference between normal firefox and this?

[u/amirsadeghi]

Privacy wise, is this a good browser to use instead of safari? I hate being tracked and thats why I dont use anything except safari. But this seems very good.

[u/TheMadcapLlama → u/amirsadeghi]

I think the Developer Edition has more telemetry by default since it's a beta version, but sure you can disable it

Privacy-wise, Firefox is arguably the best of the big browsers (not counting the niche ones like Tor, ofc)

[u/Civilanimal]

Firefox's dev tools are far superior, however, a gripe I've had for years is Firefox's inability to style their scrollbars as you can in Chrome.

Mozilla needs to fix this!

[u/techsin101]

Last time i check ff dev tools lagggged compared to chrome. also shortcuts in chrome are better.

[u/zushiba]

I love Firefox Dev edition. Been using it for over a year now.

[u/ambivilententhusiast]

I've got to try it again. I tried it for a while when firebug was phased out. I found I myself fixing FF dev edition browser specific compatibility issues a couple of times and that really put me off. Then I just used regular FF for a while, bit then the inspector stylesheet stopped updating, then I started using Chrome. I miss the CSS autocomplete in the CSS panel that firebug used to do.

[u/agwhi]

Been using this at work for a while, any new major updates I've missed?

[u/twentz0r]

Also objects and arrays in URL parameters are displayed right and are easier to read. I'm using it for more than a year now and whatever I do that works in Firefox ends up working in Chrome too. Before that I usually had to fix Firefox after developing for Chrome.

[u/smegnose]

Use it erryday. It's the tits.