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Re:Otter Browser by tarsinge on Thursday July 01, 2021 @05:28AM (#27697559)
It will not change until dev stop developing on Chrome as their main browser. Maybe tooling could be an excuse for very large webapps, but otherwise and especially for websites (hello simple forms broken except if you use Chrome) it's definitely not.

Also it's orthogonal with JS usage, anecdotically I mainly work on JS heavy websites and don't use Chrome.

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Re:Otter Browser by the_other on Thursday July 01, 2021 @06:12AM (#27697767)
I dev in Firefox. It’s great! The tooling’s really good. It’s subtly different from Chrome and you’ll feel a twinge of friction moving, but by and large, it’s easy.

Just shut it down and restart it every couple of days because it’s memory usage isn’t as tight.

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Re:Otter Browser by berkes on Thursday July 01, 2021 @06:23AM (#27697818)
Are you using the Firefox Developer Edition[1], or just the current stable one?

Fellow web-dev here, using Firefox (the one that comes with Ubuntu) as main driver. And I'd like to know if the Developer Editiion offers any benefits over the stable one, for webdevelopment.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/developer/

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Re:Otter Browser by the_other on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:49PM (#27714557)
Yes, I use the developer edition. TBH I’m not aure what the benefits are! ;-)
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Re:Otter Browser by chopin on Thursday July 01, 2021 @09:21AM (#27698779)
I do too, but what I miss is customized throttling settings (I need to optimize for fast overseas connections: high bandwidth but also high latency). Chrome (and Edge) have this.
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Re:Otter Browser by roboticmind on Thursday July 01, 2021 @12:08PM (#27700631)
Firefox has this too. You can do it the network tab[1] or in the Responsive Design Mode[2]. There's drop downs there where you can control how much you want to throttle

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monit...'

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Responsive_De...

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Re:Otter Browser by chopin on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:40AM (#27747060)
Thanks, I know these settings. One can only choose from the predefined settings. You can't customize those (as for me, to high bandwidth and high latency).
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