Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome

Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by hutzlibu on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:23AM (#20851323)

But Mozilla cannot enforce idealism on the developers.

They do already a great job with documentation, but they could and should improve on the dev-tools.

Chrome dev tools are now in a state, that I only use them for developing and debugging. Built in code editor with autocomplete. And I can debug ... and change code while debugging. And it works great (mostly).

Firefox dev tools on the other hand barely work for me to do some debugging and it is no joy. So no wonder more and more developers skip it alltogether, given the low market share of firefox.

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by privethedge on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:02AM (#20851442)

I personally prefer firefox's dev tools to chrome's ones.

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by abraCadabstrax on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:51AM (#20851576)

Boy, I am with you on this one. Full-time FF user too. The whole CSS grid thing is very well done and useful.

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by hutzlibu on Sunday September 01, 2019 @08:06AM (#20851832)

Well, I don't really work with CSS much, but js. Are you consider the debugging tools well done as well? And do you know chrome dev tools? With its elaborate performance tools etc?

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by abraCadabstrax on Sunday September 08, 2019 @09:40PM (#20914538)

I currently work more with CSS so I find the debugging tools on both good enough for my purposes. I do know the chrome dev tools and find them to be good, just happen to prefer the FF dev editions ease with layout.

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by bishalb on Sunday September 01, 2019 @09:14AM (#20852111)

Yeah but it's somewhat laggy compared to chrome's.

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by hutzlibu on Sunday September 01, 2019 @09:23AM (#20852143)

To write and debug code?

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by privethedge on Sunday September 01, 2019 @11:12AM (#20852689)

I mostly use Console, Network and Inspector tabs and I rarely debug (in general.) Especially Network tab in Firefox's dev tools is much superior to Chrome's one, IMHO.

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