Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools
by blauditore on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:30AM
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Not sure what's the issue for you; I've been using FF with its dev tools for years on Linux and Windows, and was always happy. Firebug had become way slower than the built-in dev tools, and Firefox is remarkably slower than Chrome, but not unstable at all (for me). And I like FF's dev tools better than Chrome's, except for performance investigation tools where Chrome is quite great.
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Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools
by wainstead on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:37AM
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hajile wrote: " I loaded up the latest dev edition a few days ago..."
I wonder if that meant the latest developer release, which would be expected to be unstable?
He is likely referring to: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/?v=a
This is a developer focused edition of FF and shouldn't be unstable.
Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools
by Manishearth on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:59PM
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Dev edition is Aurora, which is basically alpha (more unstable than beta).
So you get new features more rapidly, and a lot of the feature flags are flipped on, without needing to use something as unstable as nightly.
Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools
by hackalaugh on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:14AM
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The lack of xpath support is an issue to me. Why doesn't FF have xpath support? Chrome and Firebug have/had this.
Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools
by nachtigall on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:16PM
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You mean this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987877 ?
You might want to leave a comment on how/why (use case) you used it to help to priorize the bug.
There's a Firebug Gaps meta bug which depends on this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991806