Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by milkytron on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:22PM (#20046257)

One of my favorite things with Firefox is the ability to “edit and resend” requests in the browser devtools. I’m sure there are plugins that do something similar on chrome/chromium. But I use it all the time and my colleagues are always blown away when I show them this.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by joshschreuder on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @07:34PM (#20046838)

Whoa, never knew that was a thing. I found FF's dev tools quite bulky and clunky in the past, but I might have to give it another go.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by King-Aaron on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @08:34PM (#20047216)

That's the only reason I keep falling back to Chrome, the dev tools are just so much more refined.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by jchw on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:01PM (#20047357)

The one thing I always liked about Chrome dev tools was the ability to introspect WebSocket frames. Last I checked this couldn’t be done in Firefox :(

Otherwise, I have found Firefox dev tools to be fairly competitive. I liked the CSS Grid stuff they had around the launch of Quantum; it made it easier for me to jump into Grid.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by shoeboxam on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:53PM (#20047654)

I use Firefox personally, but develop with Chrome. I have a hard time getting stack traces from Firefox reliably. Oftentimes one of the following occurs on Firefox:

There is no error, but the page won't load. There is an error, but the error message is generic. There is an error message, but no stack trace.

When I switch to chrome, I always get the error and stack trace without any further code modifications.

I make sure to clean up for Firefox in releases. But it's just impossible to develop without error messages and traces. I'm on Ubuntu using the latest stable releases.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by bscphil on Friday May 31, 2019 @03:44AM (#20058947)

Ugh. Is this really still broken? I'm not a web dev but I remember having to switch to Chromium 6-8 months ago when I needed to debug a websockets issue.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by collyw on Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:46AM (#20049675)

Chromium and Opera have the same dev tools and doesn't tie you to chrome.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by jchw on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:33PM (#20046329)

Ah yeah, on occasion I will boot Firefox at work for this capability.

Truth be told I know of nothing similar in Chrome/Chromium, but you can do something similar using the healthy number of “Copy Request As” context options. I like to copy as fetch and manipulate it in the console. It’s not perfect but it’s useful.

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