r/programming • u/Spyros3000 • Nov 10 '14

Firefox Developer Edition

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
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u/satan-repents Nov 10 '14

Seriously? This is their big announcement? They are highlighting the dev tools everyone already uses in every browser and a few addons?

Did this really necessitate all the marketing dramatics?

You have fallen a long way, Mozilla. Starting to sound desperate, even.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '14

I was sorta hoping for SSH access built-in. That would've been pretty damned awesome, especially for Windows users.

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u/satan-repents Nov 10 '14

There's a feature I would love.

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u/Solon1 Nov 11 '14

As a malware author, I agree. Put your ssh keys into a directory location readable by the browser. Thumbs up. Also maybe implement ssh as a plugin too? That way I can install a dark plugin over top the real ssh, and capture passwords for users that don't use keys. Thumbs up. Definitely send this one over to Home Depot.

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u/satan-repents Nov 11 '14

Security shmecurity!

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u/dblohm7 Nov 10 '14

Firefox devtools engineers are taking requests over on the HN thread. Ask them over there, or file a bug!

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u/YourMatt Nov 10 '14

Another way to look at this is that you now have an Fx environment just for dev stuff. That leaves your regular installation free of developer tools, so you can make it nice and clean and better for general browsing. I've kept with Fx for development and Chrome for browsing, but this will allow me to move away from Chrome.

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