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Firefox is the only browser with tools built specifically for building and designing with CSS Grid. These tools allow you to visualize the grid, display associated area names, preview transformations on the grid and much more.

The new fonts panel in Firefox DevTools gives developers quick access to all of the information they need about the fonts being used in an element. It also includes valuable information such as the font source, weight, style and more.

Every modern web browser includes a powerful suite of developer tools. These tools do a range of things, from inspecting currently-loaded HTML, CSS and JavaScript to showing which assets the page has requested and how long they took to load. This article explains how to use the basic functions of your browser's devtools.

The developer tools usually open by default to the inspector, which looks something like the following screenshot. This tool shows what the HTML on your page looks like at runtime, as well as what CSS is applied to each element on the page. It also allows you to instantly modify the HTML and CSS and see the results of your changes reflected live in the browser viewport.

All performance tools can now be found grouped together under the Performance tab, for easier usage. Performance is all about timing, so you can view browser events in the context of a timeline, which in turn can be extended to include a number of detailed views based on the metrics you choose to monitor.

The Call Tree view shows the results of the JavaScript profiler for the specified range. Using this view you can see the approximate time spent in a function. The table displays total time spent within a function call or the self-time that a particular function call is using. The total time encapsulates all time spent in the function and includes time spent in nested function calls. The self-time only includes time spent in the particular function, excluding nested calls. This view can be very helpful when trying to locate functions that are consuming a large portion of processing time. This view has been available in previous iterations of Firefox, and should be familiar to developers who have used the tool in the past.

Mozilla Firefox browser is probably one of the most popular browsers among developers. The open-source browser has approximately 250 million monthly users, according to TechCrunch, and offers an enhanced level of browser privacy compared with others like Google Chrome.

Both Chrome and Firefox have options for viewing the web page in different screen sizes. This helps developers and designers see what the website style looks like on different screen sizes and devices.

I missed how to live-edit javascript in Firefox ?Unfortunately the JS debugger is definitely way behind Chrome. Not only does it not have live editing, even basic handling of callbacks can be problematic at the moment and there are many reports of bugs (Chrome has devtools bugs too, but are not usually as noticeable).

The Firefox DevTools have many options that help developers customize their experience, such as the option to Enable time-stamps in the Web Console, or to Disable HTTP Cache, which is used to simulate first-load performance in all pages that have DevTools open.

While Chrome was the first of the major browsers to add developer tools, the usefulness and popularity of these tools ensured that the other major browsers soon followed suit. And, with the relatively recent release of Firefox Developers Edition, there is certainly competition in this space. Indeed, the market is at a place now where the choice between Chrome and Firefox for web development almost comes down to a matter of preference, since both are highly capable and feature-rich in the developer tools department.

Inspect element is a devtools feature that allows a web developer to select a specific element of a web page and view its underlying structure, including code, attributes, linked elements such as style, and more. This feature is useful for isolating the cause of a problem that could theoretically be caused by HTML, CSS, or Javascript.

Slow load times are the bane of web developers everywhere. Resource profiling enables you to see what resources your page or web application is using. This can be used to identify things like excessive network bandwidth, CPU load, and memory usage.

Valence, previously called Firefox Tools Adapter, connects the Firefox Developer Tools to other major browser engines. It essentially extends the debug tools (including the Inspector, Debugger and Console, as well as Style Editor) in Firefox OS and Firefox for Android to other browsers.

I recently found myself doing a lot of front-end work in my current project. I noticed that while testing my work on other browsers, I only used Chrome for development. Researching other browsers, I discovered Firefox Developer Edition. I think it would benefit front-end developers to check out some of its awesome features such as the fonts tab, compatibility tab, inactive CSS indicator, Flexbox inspector, and CSS grid inspector.

Firefox Developer Edition provides powerful tools to help front-end developers create great web pages. I hope these features have sparked as much interest in you as they did in me. What are your thoughts? Please feel free to comment below on what browser you use and why.

Log messages can usually be viewed via the Console of the context where the script runs.The Developer tools toolbox at about:debugging shows log messages from extension scripts. For specific cases, see:

Because Firefox is multiprocess, content scripts run in a different process to other parts of an extension. Therefore, to debug content scripts, you use the developer tools for the page containing the script. To do this:

If you've already activated the split console view, so you can view the Console below Debugger, the tools open in this mode. Otherwise, press esc to activate this mode.

If the developer tools tab was not open when the content script injected, the content script may not be list in Sources. If you experience this behavior, reloading the page with the developer tools open should provide a fix.

Developer tools are extended with a hidden HTML page that is loaded when the tools are opened. From the hidden HTML page, developer tools panels can be added; these are HTML pages displayed as a tool tab in the browser UI.

Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds new in-product developer tools that make it easier to visualize page elements. Firefox also expands Firefox Sync capabilities to let users sync add-ons across computers.

Once installed, you can right-click on your HTML page, hit inspect, and look over to the right side of the tools. There is a grid section that you can open that will let you visualize your CSS Grid in a helpful way as you continue developing your app. This is great for troubleshooting if you don't know why your grid is misaligned.

Instructor: [0:01] Go to mozilla.org, and download the Firefox Developer Edition. It has great developer tools to help you visualize the CSS grid. Once installed, open the index.html page for this lesson with Firefox Developer Edition and right-click Inspect Element.

[0:18] Find grid, usually situated on the right side, and check the div.container under overlay grid. You can change the color to something that's highly visible. Now you can see the grid elements and the grid gaps. When you go into the code in the developer tools and begin clicking on the code, you can see which line of code gives you each grid element and what its dimensions are.

Did you get Firefox from an apt repo? if not, it might not have the right permissions (or at least, right enough for us). If that is the case, please locate your Firefox's installation folder (e.g. ~/.local/apps/firefox ) , then cd into it and run: sudo chown -R root:root ~/.local/apps/firefox && sudo chmod 755 ~/.local/apps/firefox/firefox-bin

So I ran into this same problem on Linux (and was confused up until seeing this post since this works fine on Windows and Mac). I'm not entirely happy with this solution, since I don't want the superuser owning a directory in my own home directory. Is there a reason why 1password wants firefox to be in a specific directory and owned by root? Is there any way it can be configured to allow being owned by the person who owns the running process? I can see how this could be used as an attack vector (run some copy of firefox some other user installed and you can't trust it), but I don't see the harm in running a copy of firefox which I installed myself in my own directory and owned by my user.

Actually, I realized one issue with this fix/workaround - by making the directory owned by root, Firefox Developer Edition actually can't update itself unless I'm running it as root. So now I'm a little confused about what the change is trying to achieve here - before changing permissions, it always thinks Firefox has an update, but after changing permissions, it no longer thinks that, it just can't actually install the update. I guess this is less of an issue if you install Firefox from system repos or a PPA and can update via package manager, but I don't think Developer Edition is available from a PPA (though beta is: ~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-next). At least at some point Developer Edition had slightly different developer tools than the regular Beta but I don't know if that's still the case... 2b1af7f3a8