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by timsayshey 3136 days ago
Their devtools have come a long way. And are almost caught up with Chrome. I've only noticed the following things missing: When an XHR response comes back as HTML, there is no "Preview" tab like in Chrome. Also, the responsive testing tool doesn't have the device frames (ie, iPhone, iPad, etc) and it also doesn't have the little touch circle cursor that let's you drag and swipe while testing.
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vatotemking 3136 days ago
Perhaps you're on an older version of FF, no? Because the things you mentioned are present, just not an exact UI/UX as that with Chrome.

Im on FF Quantum 57.0 (non dev, vanilla FF) and here are my observations:

> When an XHR response comes back as HTML, there is no "Preview" tab like in Chrome.

This is consolidated in the Response tab. You can view it as raw response, or JSON (with filtering options).

> Also, the responsive testing tool doesn't have the device frames (ie, iPhone, iPad, etc)

It does now! You can select and edit a list of device.

> and it also doesn't have the little touch circle cursor that let's you drag and swipe while testing.

They do have a touch simulation mode (pointing hand icon), but it doesnt appear to work at the moment. I cant drag the screen.

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timsayshey 3136 days ago
>> When an XHR response comes back as HTML, there is no "Preview" tab like in Chrome.

> This is consolidated in the Response tab. You can view it as raw response, or JSON (with filtering options).

Yeah, I can see the raw HTML or JSON response. But Chrome actually allows you to see the rendered HTML response in the "Preview" tab. Are you saying there is a way to see the rendered HTML from the XHR response? I'm not seeing it. To see the rendered HTML, I have to copy it, create an html file, paste the HTML, then open it in a browser. That's a lot of extra steps when debugging something.

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nachtigall 3136 days ago
Looks like this has been fixed now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353319

If you grab Nightly (I've been using it for a year now for frontend development and my normal browsing and it's just fine) you can test it.

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timsayshey 3136 days ago
Switched to nightly and there it is. Thank you!
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vatotemking 3136 days ago
Oh sorry I misread your comment. Youre right there is no HTML preview indeed
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Manishearth 3136 days ago
For XHR there's also an "edit and resend" button as well as "copy as cURL" which is amazing
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vatotemking 3136 days ago
copy as curl is so underrated
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