I don't hate Firefox, I use it as my primary browser, but its developer tools are terrible compared to chrome. If you have the network console open while a large page loads, good luck interacting with the chrome until it's finished.
Which tools and which versions of browsers are you comparing?
I guess as a developer you would be using Canary Chrome vs. Nightly Firefox, to get the latest features, right?
I find Firefox less resource-hungry and with the WebIDE and Code Snippets that don't need to import/export to devtools source snippets it might even be ahead of Chrome.
> its developer tools are terrible compared to chrome. If you have the network console open while a large page loads, good luck interacting with the chrome until it's finished.
The only annoyance I have with the developer console is something they only recently added: you now need to right click in the console and tick "Log request and response bodies" every single time. No about:config option. But aside from that, I never noticed much difference. There are some things I like in Firefox that I missed in Chrome but that's probably because I'm used to Firefox. When I went the other way around, going from Chrome to Firefox after a few months of Chrome usage, Firefox had actually caught up and I didn't need Firebug anymore at all. Never noticed anything missing.
Btw, we debug a lot of JS code and although Chrome has better developer tools they do crash... a lot and are unresponsive too. Chrome/Webkit should have native tools not the one written in JavaScript because this is a mess. They are still better than Firefox's dev tools.
Firefox's developer tools are terrible even compared to Internet Explorer 10/11 (which are actually surprisingly good). But at least Firefox as 3D doodads, because that's important...
But that all being said, if ANY developer addon lets me manually edit cookies then I will happily use it. Right now they all only let you delete, not alter, cookies. So it is hard[er] to test your site's security against malformed or malicious cookie issues.
> Firefox's developer tools are terrible even compared to Internet Explorer 10/11
Wow what, care to elaborate? I've attempted to use them once and couldn't do the most basic of tasks, went straight to getfirefox.com. Not sure what I tried to do, probably something network related or maybe css modifying.
