Probably the biggest benefit in my mind of the Firefox dev edition is how the dev team at Mozilla just went ahead and threw the whole kitchen sink into the browser. See number 5 in the above example.) Add-ons, Shmadd-ons (Example: a menu item labeled Responsive Design Mode rather than an icon of a smartphone tucked into a corner of the dev pane. Additionally, they’re labeled instead of just using icons, so you can find things easier. Maybe it’s just me, but I find myself forgetting where some of Chrome’s options are, and Firefox lays them out in a much more user-friendly way. One of the major selling points of the Firefox Developer Edition to me is how easily accessible all the tools are when compared to Chrome. In terms of personal preference, I like the Firefox one better, but I work in dark-themed IDEs, too. ![]() In Firefox, once you enter the Tools or Inspector mode, you get a similar pane to what you see in Chrome. In Chrome, there’s menu access, too, but it’s a single option with everything within the dev pane itself. Now, let’s compare accessing those features to the dev edition of Firefox:Īs you can see from this picture, Firefox lays out its menu much better. Other stuff I have had to leave out that’s tucked in different menus.Viewport/Device emulation and debugging.Somewhere in those new panes are pretty much everything you need for full a full dev workflow. If you’re used to using Chrome’s developer tools, you’re probably used either to going into the menu and selecting More Tools -> Developer Tools or to right-clicking on something and selecting Inspect Element and seeing the window split into multiple panes. It has many of the same features as the Model S, but they have to be tacked on separately (as browser add-ons in this case). They work similarly in theory, but the practical application is vastly different.Ĭontinuing the strange, electric car analogy, Google Chrome would be kind of like the Tesla Model X–the mass-market version of the Tesla line. While both versions run quickly and efficiently are set on the same foundation, the best analogy that I can think of is the dev edition is like driving a Tesla Model S while the consumer edition is similar to a fully loaded Toyota Prius. ![]() Left: base Firefox right: developer editionīut there really is. ![]() When you see a side-by-side shot of the dev vs consumer versions, there’s not a lot of difference on the surface. When you first boot up Firefox Developer Edition, there’s not really anything special. So once you’ve found it, download it and install it. So you have to scroll all the way down to the footer until you find the Beta, Nightly, Developer Edition link. That’s not a bad thing, especially with the improvements they’ve made lately (I find it actually outperforms Chrome for my daily tasks lately since the Quantum update), but that’s not why you’re here. When you head to the Firefox homepage, you’re obviously directed to download good, old, everyday, consumer Firefox. One of the biggest hurdles to using the the dev edition of Firefox is actually getting to it. 5 So…Can Firefox Developer Edition Replace Google Chrome?.
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