Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by markandrewj on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:13AM
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Give Firefox Developer Edition a try, if haven't already, and are looking for more robust development tools.
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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by frabcus on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:30AM
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Looking at https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/developer/ I'm a bit confused... Which features are just new features which will soon be in the main Firefox DevTools, and which are specific to installing the Developer Edition?
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by cpeterso on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:53AM
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AFAIK, Firefox Developer Edition is currently just a repackaging of Firefox Beta and doesn’t have different devtools. It used to be a rebranding of Firefox Aurora (an alpha release channel between Firefox Nightly and Beta, now retired) with a different theme and a few different devtool setting changes.
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by dns_snek on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:29AM
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What are the differences compared to regular Firefox?
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by markandrewj on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:43AM
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Firefox Developer Edition is targeted towards developers, and contains the latest development tools available.
New features also land quicker, as it is built against Firefox beta.
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by zdragnar on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:34AM
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Maybe I was just unlucky, but the one time I tried it, it refused to launch.
I'd rather not have my professional work tools be built against a beta channel when there are better alternatives.
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by markandrewj on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:31PM
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I have been using the Developer Edition since 2014, when it was released, without issue. You are not locked into a single browser. Personally I use more then one browser, and professionally I always validate against multiple browsers.
I find different browsers excel at different things in regards to the developer experience. As an example I appreciate that Firefox had a formatted JSON view without requiring an extension. However Chrome also has capabilities that I wish were included in Firefox.