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Ask HN: Which browser do you use for development?

3 pointsby tbirrellabout 8 years ago
Which browser along with what plugins&#x2F;extensions do you use for your web development environment?<p>And regarding the browser, do you consider it the superior option? Or is it the plugins&#x2F;extensions that cause you to use it?

3 comments

cpburns2009about 8 years ago
I mainly use Chrome (technically Chromium) when developing web pages, but I verify functionality works with Firefox. While the built-in developer tools are about equal, in Chrome it&#x27;s much easier to enable&#x2F;disable request logging. In Firefox you have to jump to a different settings pane which is a pain.<p>However, I use Firefox for non-development because it uses less RAM, and at the time (a few years ago) Adblock Plus blocked ads in Firefox before the page loaded, but in Chrome it only blocked them after the page loaded. I use uBlock Origin with Firefox now, but adblocking may have improved with Chrome since I last tested it.
download13about 8 years ago
I use Chrome most of the time. It&#x27;s devtools just can&#x27;t be beat at the moment.<p>I&#x27;m excited to hear Mozilla is getting back on modernizing Firefox though. It&#x27;ll be nice to have options again.
philippzabout 8 years ago
I use Chrome. Here i can be sure to always have support for cutting-edge web standards, the developer tools are amazing and for anything else i have a great extension-ecosystem.