Re:Firefox Replay
by bflesch on Thursday November 28, 2019 @06:54AM
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How about linux users?
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You’ve got to accept the fact they want to collect feedback from other users first and not you.
Re:Firefox Replay
by madeofpalk on Thursday November 28, 2019 @09:21AM
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From some users first, even if that doesn't include you
No, specifically him. I’ve heard talk. I dunno what he did but he should apologize already.
Extremely featureful debuggers such as this one tend to require a great deal of code that is hardware-specific, in addition to being OS-specific. I assume MacOS was targeted first because it's the platform with the greatest degree of hardware uniformity. I fully expect Linux support to materialize someday, but with the caveat that I expect it will only (officially) work with the most popular hardware.
Re:Firefox Replay
by jasonlaster11 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:38PM
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That's right. The only way to have a performant recording is to capture the browser's OS system calls in the recording. This unfortunately makes the feature quite OS specific.
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/recordr...
Replay is currently in the user-research validation phase. We care about cross platform support and will prioritize it when we are ready to commit to the feature.