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> I'm using Firefox for all my personal browsing, but I decided to spin up Chrome because I know how good their DevTools are. So make sure to use the right tool
by iruoy 4y ago
> I'm using Firefox for all my personal browsing, but I decided to spin up Chrome because I know how good their DevTools are. So make sure to use the right tool for the job.
Are Firefox's devtools actally worse then Chrome's though?
- awestroke 4y agoYes
- throwaway0x7E6 4y agoff devtools are alright, but chrome's are kinda the industry standard
- psadauskas 4y agoI like Firefox’s better for CSS, particularly flexbox and grid debugging, but Chrome’s network tab is better.
- kevingadd 4y agoIt's a tough set of tradeoffs. Chrome has more features here and there but (for example) the Firefox profiler gives MUCH more detailed and useful information if your goal is to figure out where your CPU time is going. The chrome profiler is also incredibly slow, I suspect because the Chrome dev team rarely uses it and hasn't had to optimize it (they have a different profile viewer for things like tracing browser execution). The FF profiler is the main one the FF dev team uses, so in practice it's much faster. For that reason also it has profile sharing built in, which is handy.
- seanw444 4y agoI really like Firefox's dev tools layout. I have to agree with the sibling comment on the "network" tab though. For some reason, Chromium has given me more detailed error messages about requests, which have guided me in the right direction when Firefox left me scratching my head a bit.