there’s a difference between a dev console, which is required for web developers and something that draws a line in the scroll bar. You can easily live without the later and there are absolutely no workflows requiring it. grandparent is giving up privacy for a line in the scroll bar.
Re:No to Chrome
by zzo38computer on Saturday December 07, 2019 @04:32PM
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OK, although note that I am not a web developer. The dev console is not only useful for web developers, but for other users too.
A feature I cannot do without is the web developer console; much of the modern web pages are bad without it.
The older XPCOM-based extensions also are more powerful than the WebExtensions and can do many more things (I don't like the design of XPCOM, but nevertheless WebExtensions isn't very good either). Such as, I can alter the behaviour of the location bar; I don't like the default behaviour and I want it to treat my entry as a relative URL (rather than trying to add the scheme automatically or treat it as a search query), so I programmed it to do that.