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If they want us to pay, they MUST provide dev tools that are as good as Chrome's, if not better. My team builds a lot of PWAs, and Firefox simply did not provi
by osrec 7y ago
If they want us to pay, they MUST provide dev tools that are as good as Chrome's, if not better.
My team builds a lot of PWAs, and Firefox simply did not provide good enough diagnostic tools, so we couldn't use it in earnest (even though we really wanted to).
- yorwba 7y agoWhat specific functionality of the Chrome dev tools did you miss in Firefox?
- fernandotakai 7y agoyeah, i keep hearing that here on HN (and only here, for some reason) but i myself use firefox and chrome dev tools almost daily and i never once thought "yeah this is missing". well, for one, chrome is actually missing one big thing for me: a dark theme.
- SquareWheel 7y agoChrome dev tools have a dark theme. It's under settings.
- osrec 7y agoAbility to stop/start/reinstall service workers, view app manifests, validate app manifests, add apps to the desktop etc, store local results as global variables in the console. Connect mobile devices and run a local server on the mobile device. There are more, but I can't think of them currently.
- bzbarsky 7y agoThe UI is not very pretty, but about:serviceworkers lets you reinstall or unregister serviceworkers.
- BoumTAC 7y agoWorking source map
- scriptkiddy 7y agoI've been working as a professional web developer for 5+ years. In that time I have always used Firefox for development. I have never once felt that Firefox dev tools was missing any tool that I needed. I'm curious what kind of applications your building that require some sort of specialized tool that Firefox dev tools doesn't provide. The best thing about Firefox is that if there is a dev tools feature that you need, you can easily submit a feature request in the support forums: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/firefox Or, if you have the time and energy, you can always build it yourself: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Introduction https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...