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Firefox🦊 is the best browser for web-developers 💻🐱‍👤

krishna kakade on July 07, 2020

Hello all😊👋 In this article, I am going to tell you guys why Firefox is the best browser for web-developers to date in deep🌊👓⤵🔥. Contents...
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leob • Edited

Some bold statements about Firefox being "the best", but as far as I see this is mainly "opinion based", not fact-based:

Firefox is the best choice for both web developers and their viewers, because it offers the most reliable performance, even with many tabs open (it takes less RAM and CPU usage compare to the chrome according to my 2 years of experience with firefox and many forums also agree that😊)

Numbers and facts to back this up? On which OS, on which hardware, etc?

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krishna kakade • Edited

windows version 1909 (OS build 18363.900)
for checking facts read the whole article and then give a read⤵
Opensource Directory of Mozilla Firefox
Firefox Github Codebase
Comparison of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome
mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers...
Here I go with my minimalistic setup

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leob

Cool, thanks ... this is what I mean, it's not 100% guaranteed to perform better on let's say Linux, OSX and so on. Besides, performance is a moving target, with the next version of Chrome and FF things could be different again.

I think what's more important is that having a CHOICE and an alternative is a good thing - it wouldn't be good if Chrome would 100% dominate the browser market.

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Ashley Sheridan

It does perform better than chrome (by quite a margin) on Linux, and Chrome crashes often there.

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Ren • Edited

Windows 10. 12 RAM.
Mac Catalina 8 GB RAM. 3.5 GHz.

Firefox is superior in both for me.

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ekanSSS

I'll say it depend on what you do, because firefox devtool for ServiceWorker and PWA are really bad, and in my personnal opinion, JavaScript debugging is more intuitive on chrome than firefox.

On another hand, debugging on a vastly used browser let you catch more bug on it, and chart talk for themselves ( https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2020&month=6 ).

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Jorge Del Castillo

This is a common post the problem is your title.It is not true.

For web development, chrome is better for debugging with many different tools and libraries. Also if you use Cordova to make your web a native. The native uses chrome too for android.

However as you have shown, Firefox is better for CSS ux styles debugging how it looks. This I cannot deny Firefox offers a great environment if you focus on HTML and CSS but all that's included in web development no.

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Ben Halpern

Nice. I know a couple people have definitely switched to Firefox based on my posts (which don't so much argue in favor of this, just remind folks it's an option), and I think this is a really great resource for anyone doing that.

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krishna kakade

Yes 💯 Thank You🤗🤩

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Paweł Kowalski

As a Fx user for a long time (both in private and dev job) there are definietly some things that are much worse in dev tools than chrome. But thats not because its bad in general, its just because chrome is pushing hard with new features and UI/UX improvements, like previously mentioned SW/PWA.

Back in the ~2016, i participated in live interview with Mozilla how Firefox devtools can be improved and i must say that in 2020 most of my feedback is outdated, so im optimistic.

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G33kNoob

im forcing myself to use firefox for 3month , in my opinion the bad thing in firefox is javascript debugging, sometimes i don't see detail error in firefox then i open chrome and i see a lot more detail, i don't know why this thing happen, but maybe i will try use developer edition version.

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Kalyani

node.js is built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. I’m not sure but I think if one is working on an app using node.js then it might not be the best idea to use Firefox. Do you have any experience building apps using Express?

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demkantor

I build a lot off apps with node.js and express, personally I've always been very attached to Firefox but do at times pull out chrome. I know I'm bias, but also know that I have the best development experience using Firefox. At the same time I truly believe others have the best experience using chrome. Just like my choice of OS (always some Linux distro) is the best option for me, but Mac or windows may be best for you

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krishna kakade

Yup.
Not yet but sure I am going to work on express in future by using Mozilla Firefox resource ⤵
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/L...

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Ajay Gupta

I would prefer chrome over the Firefox.

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Ibne Nahian

Blisk is damn good.

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G33kNoob

not available for linux :(

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Ibne Nahian

sad

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krishna kakade

Sure I will go through that.

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Ibne Nahian

Give a try.

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MD JUNAID ALAM

Not biased about Chrome, but you mention "I changed the value of base 50 (saas codebase) using Firefox inspector tool and in live-preview of webpage(We can't do that in Chrome🤙)".

we can change the variables colors in chrome as well. I have been doing it. Attached a gif for the same.
Changing CSS variables in Chrome

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DesignedByNino

I'm not sure about you, but I don't intend making my mac google's playground, as seen with the recent and current Chrome updater and secret program 'Keystone' absolutely taking over the performance of your computer. For all of you hardcore google fanboys, check this :
chromeisbad.com/

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Lalnuntluanga • Edited

For web developers. The best browser is the browser which majority of the visitors will use. So, any chromium based browser is going to be better than Firefox.

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Tobias Krause

"Firefox is opensource and it is the best-secured browser to date".
Proof? I dodged FF since they had some very old bugs which they did not fix for years
like:
zdnet.com/article/malicious-sites-...
infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fir...

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krishna kakade

Yup thanks Jack 😊
We are firefoxian😂

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Great write up!

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Guillaume Chx

Nice article :p

Tho for having tried Firefox dev tools several times I still prefer chrome's dev tools and can't explain why :/
But I'd it fits some of us, beautiful Web dev community thats cool :D

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José Muñoz

I've been a Firefox user for some years now, while its not perfect, I hope that with more developers using it we can bring it to parity with Chrome (in terms of ecosystem).

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WritingMetier

The strangest thing is that you have a point, but I'm still a fun of Chrome.

Same thing with MacOS and Windows users, we all understand that Windows is way better for developers, but there are many funs like me who straightly work with MacOS ;)

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kamil

I assume that “windows” part is pure sarcasm, right? 😅
We all understand the advantages of Unix based posix compliant OS (macOS in that case) over this weirdo created by Microsoft, right?
And even considering how much more enjoyable developing on some polished Linux distribution or macOS is, it’s not possible to go back to that painful Microsoft experience.

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MxL Devs

What kind of things does Firefox offer that would make it superior to chrome?

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krishna kakade

Read whole article and then compare features and tools with chrome/other browsers 😊👋

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MxL Devs

I was hoping you would be able to offer insight on that, since chrome can basically do everything you mentioned.

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Petee

100% agree

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Arturs Smirnovs

I made this browser: Browser for developers
It allows you to test responsive web design easily.. :)

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ucheuzor

I think you're right. I stated using Firefox of late and am enjoying it. it uses less ram space compared to chrome. it's also easy to debug in firefox than in chrome

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Gagan Deep

I didn't know there is something like "Google Chrome for Developers" or "Firefox’s Developer Edition". Thanks for educating me.

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krishna kakade

Welcome buddy

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krishna kakade

Right But Devtools and other tools/features/functionality matters.

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Alexey

Firefox devtools much worse than chrome, many things, each time i debug in Firefox i feel pain.

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John Melody Me

Not to mentioned that firefox pretty print json value by default.

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A5h1m

Nice article

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Jmaglinte

Maybe its time to switch in firefox now :D

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vimino

While I use it personally, I'll go to Chrome for work since that's what users are likely using without going into the "test it in every browser" territory.

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