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Comment by wahnfrieden | Hacker News Reader

Firefox for browsing (because the awesomebar is still way better at finding things in my history/bookmarks than Chrome for me, and because of bookmark tags). Chrome for development.

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wow thats strange

I occasionally find myself using chrome for browsing because I find it that much more reactive and stable than firefox.

but I couldnt leave firefox for developing, as much as I have tried I just always find the web inspector lacking compared to firebug

Out of curiosity, what do you like better about Firebug? I've been using the Chrome web inspector for awhile now and loving it. Maybe there's some feature in Firebug that's useful that I don't know about yet though.

I’m a Safari user primarily, and while I generally use the webkit inspector as a last ditch when Firebug is being stupid, Firebug is much better at listing css styles. Webkit’s styles have way too much in the way of per-selector headers.

I agree that the Chrome inspector is missing some things that Firebug has (primarily, it is unable to render the HTML returned in XHR requests - this is a big deal for me, since I use Django which returns debug pages in HTML, and I do a ton of XHR in my applications) but I use it when I can simply because it hangs less, crashes less and is faster overall for me. You should know though that there's a Firebug Lite bookmarklet available for Chrome - that's what I use when I need to examine XHR responses. There's probably a plugin for it too.

Also how recently have you tried the Chrome inspector? It's been getting a lot of attention lately from the dev team.

I used Firefox for the same reason, the awesome-bar takes me places so much faster than in Chrome. But Firefox feels so clunky and slow that I had to make the switch to Chrome a few weeks ago. Everything is snappier, no lag.

I'm the opposite - Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development. I havent found anything on Chrome to match the usefulness of Firebug

Firefox feels prehistoric in many ways compared to chrome but I won't switch until they copy the awesomebar verbatim. It's perfect.

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