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by matthewvincent 2590 days ago
Firefox dev edition has been my go to lately, highly recommended if you do a lot of markup / css debugging. Being able to see outlines around elements as I hover / scan through the DOM easily doubles my speed.
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I have found the CSS "changes" tab to be very useful. Just tweak the CSS and once you're satisfied you can just view a diff and use that to modify your code base [0]

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto...

I like FF's diff format. For anyone who hasn't seen it, they give you the old code, followed by the new code:

    /* I think they also include URL info up here */
    h1 {
      /* background-color: blue; */
      background-color: grey;
    }
We (Chrome DevTools) have a Changes tab but no nice diff export like FF. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/devtools#c...
I agree. Whenever I have something strange going on with CSS Grid or Flexbox layouts, the issue is usually easier to find with Firefox than Chrome.

Let's see how the new JS debugger feels.

Can you not do that with every browser's dev tools?