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If only Firefox weren’t such a crap dev experience compared to Chrome.
have you tried it recently?
I was of the same opinion for a long time, used to dev in chrome, now I use exclusively firefox, I think it's better or at least, there is nothing I miss from chrome.
I use it all the time to debug fun special behavior of Firefox.
what special behavior? I only had issues with Safari lately (with IE dead)
The vertical alignment in flexboxes behaves slightly different in Chrome than Firefox. In Chrome, everything is neatly baseline aligned, and in Firefox it's all over the place. Another thing I recently had was that Firefox just refused to load the custom fonts for some weird reason. That one went away by itself after a while.
do you mean like a flex-row and without using align-items: center?
because with center it works fine. same with flex-col and justify-content: center.
It might just be a default that's different between the two browsers, and I haven't set anything. This has been so low on my priority list that I never actually looked into it.
You talking about the dev tools or it's support for new web technologies? Dev tools seem to have improved by a lot since the last time I used it, but I do wish they were quicker with support for other things, like can we get working Web Speech API support?
The dev tools specifically. They're also pretty behind on web tech, but that's another topic. For example, they still don't have WebGPU support.
Ah I see, I haven't run into any issues with it in development, but I am curious what specific issues you see with the Firefox dev tools?
It's not really issues, it's just the overall usability. For example, you can't press F8 to continue while the focus is in the console, you have to grab the mouse and click into the debugger view (also, debugger is a weird name for the source view).