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It's also hard. Despite the complaints of Google dominance, Chrome is just a really good browser. I tried to switch to Firefox Quantum earlier this year as my

It's also hard. Despite the complaints of Google dominance, Chrome is just a really good browser. I tried to switch to Firefox Quantum earlier this year as my daily driver. I had some minor annoyances, but I ended up switching back to Chrome for the devtools.

techsupporter 8y ago
Web dev tools are something I have to take people's word for (and, to be clear, have no reason to doubt) since I don't do that kind of work so I have no clue what makes for good tools versus bad ones. But, my overall point still stands: If this is such a major failing in Firefox, is there nobody passionate enough to help keep a browser--that lots of people claim to want to use but for those tools--up to par with the competition?
- bnastic 8y ago
  The original “wow!” development tool for Firefox wasn’t event developed by them, if I recall correctly - Firebug was just an extension, developed by one guy, but the extendion system and developers’ interest in platform were in place
- rebelwebmaster 8y ago
  Firefox' devtools live in GitHub these days and can be patched without needing to build Firefox. I'm sure they'd welcome contributions from passionate developers. https://github.com/devtools-html https://github.com/devtools-html
KamBha 8y ago
I use Firefox day in and day out and the only time I have found myself using Chrome is when I have to do profiling and even then that is because profiling tools in all browsers kinda sucks. I have often wondered what is the killer feature that Chrome dev tools has that Firefox does not that forces people to switch back to Chrome as this seems to be a common refrain and while I don't work on the dev tools I sometimes wonder what awesome feature I am missing in Chrome... In some cases, I actually find Chrome lacking. For example, the ability to see what events are attached to a dom element. DISCLAIMER: I do not work on the developer tools for Chrome or Firefox and don't do much CSS.

techsupporter 8y ago

Web dev tools are something I have to take people's word for (and, to be clear, have no reason to doubt) since I don't do that kind of work so I have no clue what makes for good tools versus bad ones. But, my overall point still stands: If this is such a major failing in Firefox, is there nobody passionate enough to help keep a browser--that lots of people claim to want to use but for those tools--up to par with the competition?

bnastic 8y ago
The original “wow!” development tool for Firefox wasn’t event developed by them, if I recall correctly - Firebug was just an extension, developed by one guy, but the extendion system and developers’ interest in platform were in place
rebelwebmaster 8y ago
Firefox' devtools live in GitHub these days and can be patched without needing to build Firefox. I'm sure they'd welcome contributions from passionate developers. https://github.com/devtools-html https://github.com/devtools-html

KamBha 8y ago

I use Firefox day in and day out and the only time I have found myself using Chrome is when I have to do profiling and even then that is because profiling tools in all browsers kinda sucks. I have often wondered what is the killer feature that Chrome dev tools has that Firefox does not that forces people to switch back to Chrome as this seems to be a common refrain and while I don't work on the dev tools I sometimes wonder what awesome feature I am missing in Chrome... In some cases, I actually find Chrome lacking. For example, the ability to see what events are attached to a dom element. DISCLAIMER: I do not work on the developer tools for Chrome or Firefox and don't do much CSS.