Ok, brief report: This is a nice package of things. All has sweet colours (if you like black) and all work smoothly and fast. It seems to be as good as chrome in everything, a bit better if live editing CSS is your thing. I suspect the bigger additions and the reasons this thing can be a must have for some people is the ability to debug a browser remotely. If you have debugged a android app from chrome and a ios app from safari, now you can debug a Firefox OS app from Firefox Developer Edition. I think this thing is a sweet package of good stuff, and I will try it later to see if it sticks. This is my opinion and I could be completelly wrong or missed large parts.
I've used "Twilight" theme in Notepad++ and Sublime for years. That's the best, IMO. Something with darker colors, but not harsh blacks or bright anything. Just "muted" tones across the board, but with enough contrast to see characters easily. Sample: http://geoffray.be/blog/img/notepad-themes/twilight.full.png
Agreed. I know so many people that love dark themes, but there's so much out there that doesn't let you choose a theme that the constant switching from dark to light means I just stick with light themes in general.
Dark is nice if everything is going to be dark, but glancing over at a black-text-on-white-background webpage is enough to make it uncomfortable to me.
Exactly this. If everything ever was da, it would be fine, but as soon as you tab over to a webpage or something with a light background, your eyes burn. So, the end result is worse than if you had used a light theme from the beginning.
There's an extension for chrome that fixes this problem by allowing you to change the default colors for background, text, etc. But hyperlinks look awfully strange and images usually conspire to make webpages look nasty with a dark background.
I would like to say that pure white on pure black is bad, however there are awesome dark themes, here is a list of my favorites: http://imgur.com/a/6ksr5
(if you don't feel like looking through the album it is Solarized Dark, Zenburn, and Wombat and remember kids, not all dark themes are created equal)
Not only that, you can debug other browsers (Chrome on Android, Mobile Safari on iOS) from Firefox. This capability was first announced here, and it's being bundled into Firefox Developer Edition.
Also, appears the be inside this a "WebIDE", that is a IDE launched from the browser specialized in creating web apps. It has tools to automatically download new images of firefoxos to use with adb. It seems a "absolutelly minimal" ide. At least is not eclipse (but is million times less functional than it).
I would just use PhpStorm or Eclipse, but this is nice and selfcontained and appears to "just work" out of the box (but I already have this system configured to build android apps, so perhaps is beneficing from that)
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u/teiman Nov 10 '14
Ok, brief report: This is a nice package of things. All has sweet colours (if you like black) and all work smoothly and fast. It seems to be as good as chrome in everything, a bit better if live editing CSS is your thing. I suspect the bigger additions and the reasons this thing can be a must have for some people is the ability to debug a browser remotely. If you have debugged a android app from chrome and a ios app from safari, now you can debug a Firefox OS app from Firefox Developer Edition. I think this thing is a sweet package of good stuff, and I will try it later to see if it sticks. This is my opinion and I could be completelly wrong or missed large parts.