Debugging Articles
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Go beyond console.log with the Firefox Debugger
console.log is no debugger. It’s great for figuring out what your JavaScript app is up to, but it’s limited to spitting out a minimal amount of information. If your code is complex, you’ll need a proper debugger. That’s why we’ve added a new section to the Firefox Devtools Playground that’s all about debugging, with four basic lessons that use the Firefox Debugger to examine and repair a simple JavaScript to-do app.
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Saying Goodbye to Firebug
The most popular and powerful web development tool. Firebug has been a phenomenal success. Over its 12-year lifespan, the open source tool developed a near cult following among web developers. When it came out in 2005, Firebug was the first tool to let programmers inspect, edit, and debug code right in the Firefox browser.
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Inspect, Modify, and Debug React and Redux in Firefox with Add-ons
React, along with Redux, is one of the fastest and most flexible UI frameworks on the web. It’s easy to write, easy to use and is great for teams. However, it's not easy to debug them in the browser. Now, browser add-ons like React Developer Tools, Redux DevTools, and Vue let you inspect, modify, and debug your code right in the browser.
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Hacking & Contributing to Servo On Windows
Like many cross-platform open source projects, Servo, the high-performance browser engine project written in Rust, has always been a bit of a nightmare to build and run on Windows. Luckily, thanks to the Rust team and Servo community, most of the issues have been squashed and we can now launch it with nothing more than […]
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Introducing debugger.html
debugger.html is a modern JavaScript debugger from Mozilla, built as a web application with React and Redux. This project was started early this year in an effort to replace the current debugger within the Firefox Developer Tools. Also, we wanted to make a debugger capable of debugging multiple targets and functioning in a standalone mode. […]
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New Performance Tools in Firefox Developer Edition 40
Today Mozilla is pleased to announce the availability of Firefox Developer Edition 40 (DE 40) featuring all-new performance tools! In this post we will cover some of DE 40’s new developer tools, fixes, and improvements made to existing tools. In addition, a couple of videos showcase some of these features. Note: Many of the new […]
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WiFi Debugging for Firefox OS
I am excited to announce that we’re now shipping WiFi debugging for Firefox OS! It’s available in Firefox OS 3.0 / master with Firefox Nightly on desktop. WiFi debugging allows WebIDE to connect to your Firefox OS device via your local WiFi network instead of a USB cable. The connection experience is generally more straightforward […]
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Using the Firefox DevTools to Debug fetch() on GitHub
Firefox Nightly recently added preliminary support for Fetch, a modern, Promise-based replacement for XMLHttpRequest (XHR). Our initial work supported most of the Fetch Specification, but not quite all of it. Specifically, when Fetch first appeared in Nightly, we hadn’t yet implemented serializing and de-serializing of FormData objects. GitHub was already using Fetch in production with […]
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Mozilla Introduces the First Browser Built For Developers: Firefox Developer Edition
Developers are critical to the continued success of the Web. The content and apps they create compel us to come back to the Web every day, whether on a computer or mobile phone. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox, we’re excited to unveil Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser created specifically for developers. […]
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PhoneGap Developer App preview for Firefox OS
The cross-platform team at Mozilla is always looking for ways to improve how developers build apps with open web standards. We consider Cordova and PhoneGap to be great tools to achieve that. We are excited to work on improving support for PhoneGap by getting the PhoneGap Developer App into Firefox OS. The PhoneGap Developer App […]
