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by blodovnik 2528 days ago
Firefox has lost its lead because it's lost the developers.

Chrome has invested massively in developer tools for chrome and it's shows.... I think chrome is the best software ever written. The developer tools are so powerful that it'd hard to even know the full breadth of what's in there.

Firefox offers nothing to developers over chrome, which is sad.
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daveFNbuck 2528 days ago
> Firefox offers nothing to developers over chrome, which is sad.

Firefox has multi-account containers. Having different tabs logged in to different accounts is huge for me.

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Bjartr 2528 days ago
I use Chrome profiles to great effect.
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daveFNbuck 2528 days ago
Can't you only have one profile open at a time, and each one is linked to a different Google account?

Firefox allows you to have each tab open in a different container, and they don't have to be tied to anything in particular.

I can have different tabs open to the AWS console for each AWS account I use. I can also switch tabs to change between different user accounts to test interactions between users on the site I'm developing.

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jamesgeck0 2528 days ago
> Can't you only have one profile open at a time

No. Each profile opens in a new Chrome window. You can have as many open as you'd like.

> and each one is linked to a different Google account?

No. Local profiles have always been a thing.

Chrome's implementation has better UX for privacy IMHO; it's harder to accidentally open a tab in a different profile than expected, which I do _all the time_ in Firefox. In Chrome, Cmd+T opens a new tab in the active profile. In Firefox, Cmd+T opens a new tab in the default profile.

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daveFNbuck 2528 days ago
Yeah, the implementation could use some work. I also use the temporary containers plugin so by default tabs open in new containers. I think this gives better security than either of these defaults. If I need a site to open up in a particular container, I can always set that too.
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IHLayman 2528 days ago
https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

Vimium/cVim just doesn't match up and aren't under as aggressive development. For this keyboard-focused developer, there's not a good enough reason to be on Chrome. I know I am in the minority, but it's a point nonetheless.

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mceachen 2528 days ago
Working with both browsers daily for PhotoStructure, I can tell you I miss the FF grid tool and changes panels on chrome dev tools. More features are coming: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
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Zardoz84 2528 days ago
You actually try FF dev tools ?
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