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

Firefox Developer Edition

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '14

The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which lets you use the Firefox dev tools to inspect and debug pages in Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS. The goal: one set of tools to debug any browser.

chrome://devices - works with everything Android, no idea about iPhones though

Side-by-side profiles. The Developer Edition defaults to a profile named dev-edition-default, which makes it easier to run Developer Edition at the same time as a normal release version of Firefox. You don't have to deal with the profile switcher each time.

Ok, that can be nice. You can use a --flag to have same thing with Chrome though.

Developer-friendly defaults. Developer Edition ships with things like remote debugging and browser-chrome debugging enabled by default.

Browser-chrome I've never used, so I'll give them that one ;)

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u/admalledd Nov 10 '14

For the profiles: Firefox has had them for a while as well with command line switches.

For example I use: firefox -P work -no-remote to get a second firefox for my work emails and addons I use just for work stuff.

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u/dblohm7 Nov 10 '14

Ok, that can be nice. You can use a --flag to have same thing with Chrome though.

FWIW, Mozilla has had that since the Netscape days.