Developer Tools Articles
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Developer Tools Update – Firefox 22
This is the first in a series of posts published on or about the time a new Firefox version graduates from ‘Nightly’ status and becomes Firefox Aurora. We think that is the absolute best time to let you know about all the cool new developer-related features that have landed in the last 6 weeks, and […]
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WebIDE, Storage inspector, jQuery events, iframe switcher + more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 34
A new set of Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the Firefox 34 release in November. This release brings new tools (storage inspector, WebIDE), an updated profiler, and handy enhancements to the existing tools: WebIDE WebIDE, a […]
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Firefox Developer Edition 38: 64-bits and more
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox, we unveiled Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser created specifically for developers. At that time, we also announced plans to ship a 64-bit version of Firefox. Today we’re happy to announce the next phase of that plan: 64-bit builds for Firefox Developer Edition are now available on […]
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Live Editing Sass and Less in the Firefox Developer Tools
Sass and Less are expressive languages that compile into CSS. If you’re using Sass or Less to generate your CSS, you might want to debug the source that you authored and not the generated CSS. Luckily you can now do this in the Firefox 29 developer tools using source maps. The Firefox developer tools use […]
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Faster smarter JavaScript debugging in Firefox DevTools
Script debugging is one of the most powerful and complex productivity features in the web developer toolbox. Done right, it empowers developers to fix bugs quickly and efficiently. The DevTools Debugger team – with help from our tireless developer community – has just landed updates that significantly improve performance and reliability.
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Network Monitor, now in Firefox Beta
The Firefox Developer Tools team is particularly proud announce that Firefox 23 (in Firefox Beta, to be released today) ships with an initial but very functional Network Monitor tool that not only provides similar functionality to other tool sets, but in many improves on them. This important step is the result of lots of hard […]
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Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator
Firefox OS (and the Boot2Gecko (B2G) project on which it is based) has been written about extensively on Hacks already, but the brief summary is that Mozilla is building a mobile phone operating system where the whole user interface is built on web technology (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Part of the magic in making that […]
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Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android and iOS with one tool? We believe the Web is powerful enough to offer a Mobile Web development solution that meets these needs! Enter an experimental Firefox add-on called […]
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HTML Editing and other improvements in Firefox 17 Developer Tools
Firefox 17 has recently hit the Aurora channel, and with it comes a number of improvements to the built-in web developer tools. HTML Editing This is one of the most-requested features for our tools, and we’re happy with the solution we have for you. With the Style panel in the Page Inspector, you can easily […]
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Firefox Aurora 13 Developer Tools Updates
While users of the Firefox release channel are just now getting to enjoy the Style Editor and the Page Inspector 3D (Tilt), we have a number of nice developer tools improvements that we’ve shipped to the Aurora channel for Firefox 13. Aurora users are up to 12 weeks ahead of the release channel. Page Inspector […]