Some would say that it is a long way from software engineering to journalism, others would correctly argue that it is a mere 10 metres according to the floor plan. The extended support releases are intended to give organisations and enterprises the ability to deploy Firefox without keeping pace with Firefox’s new increased release tempo. I’ll be disabling Firebug and seeing how far I can get with Firefox’s tolling on its own.įirefox 10 is the first release to be branded an Extended Support Release, meaning that it will have security patches for its 54-week life. I’d love to see Firefox’s built-in tooling get to be on a par with Firebug’s, simply to alleviate the memory usage - when devs complain that Firefox is slow, my first question is whether they have Firebug enabled. The Scratchpad is a nifty idea and is much better to use than tapping away in the Error Console or Firebug’s console. The video below shows off the new features: All web developers have been there with Firebug and its propensity to make a web page either incredibly slow or take the browser down with it.įirebug is still my web debugger of choice, but Firefox has taken steps towards closing the gap with its new Firefox 10 release.
When debugging a web page, the last thing one needs is to have the browser crash under the memory-hogging ability of a plug-in. Mozilla has launched Firefox 10, a release packed with an improved set of developer tools, and is the first release to be covered with extended support.
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