http://www.osnews.com/story/23067/Mozilla_Developers_Talk_Up_Firefox_as_a_Key_Development_Tool Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:06:55 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?415493 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415493 I simply cannot imagine developing without Firebug. The funny thing is I was introduced to Firebug by my non technical boss who was using it to test page load speeds. But the inspect element feature is obviously its best feature. Much more advanced than Chrome's and easier to manipulate than IE 8's developer tools. Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adinas) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415511 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415511 Definitely. Its Javascript debugging features and console are life-savers, too - and the 'net' view can come in really handy if you do AJAX-style things. Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raboof) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415623 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415623 Some Mozilla developers have converted to Solaris, just to get DTrace.

http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/09/06/land-of-dtrace/ Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kebabbert) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415637 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415637 That's a pretty old post. Nowadays in Linux, there is both systemtap and dynamic ftrace which works really well.

http://lwn.net/Articles/343766/Edited 2010-03-28 20:51 UTC Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415699 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415699 I'm not a professional web developer, so I gotta ask. What makes Firefox a superior dev environment to other browsers? For my pet projects I usually use Opera Dragonfly, since Opera is my main browser, and I have found it quite nice, without missing any of Firebug's capabilities. Also, although I haven't use them at all, Chrome's dev tools seem to do pretty much the same stuff.

So, have I missed some of firebug's functionality? Is there some other add on that is crucial for web development? The linked article seems to be shy on the details. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Stratoukos) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415931 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415931 I much prefer Safari with all it's development tools. Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mr.Manatane) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?416426 http://www.osnews.com/thread?416426 I'm sad you didn't mention Opera, whose Opera Dragonfly is a very capable counterpart to FireBug.

I'm a long time Opera user and I just don't get why people are so all over Firefox. I even laughed when in last H.264/Theora OSnews article, someone explained how Firefox took market shares from IE with its load of features, including tabs... But my intent is not to start another best browser contest.

Back to the dev thing, the only thing I can rant about in DragonFly is that when a expanded variable views got collapsed each debug step. That was the last time Firebug didn't allow me to do something and thank god, Opera was there.

Honestly, Firebug is the best thing that ever happened in the web dev scene, at least for making Javacript debugging so easy. And I don't even mention the Net or Console tabs.

But I am so pissed off that Firefox needs a live connection just to reach 'localhost:8080'! At my workplace, losing the wifi connection several times a day isn't rare. When that happens and I'm using Firefox, I can't reach my local pages anymore. I don't see any logical reason for that, although a reason probably exists. Am I the only one experiencing that live connection need from Firefox? Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vodoomoth) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?416494 http://www.osnews.com/thread?416494 The Opera debugger was actually the first time I saw this stuff in a browser, I remember thinking how cool it was. But at the time it was really slow. I remember you had to wait like a whole minute just for it to load up the developer window. I'm sure things are better now but at the time it was not usable. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adinas) Comments