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Yes it was unfortunate to see add-ons break when we moved from version 3.6, but it was for good, if you come back you will notice all of the add-ons updated and working, a big performance boost and more stability, and you can update effortless without breaking things, most of the add-on dev's have caught on with the release cycle, and those who didn't are in my opinion not worth it anyway, but take this with a grain of salt I mostly have Firebug, Yslow, Clear Cache and Colorzilla Color Picker installed.

I personally always have both Chrome and Firefox open, Chrome seems more responsive at times ( at least on my Macbook Pro ), but I can't get any productivity out of it (I'm a Web Dev) Firefox is a big winner for me here.

And one more thing about version numbers, chrome latest version is 22.0.1229.94

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How oh how are you more productive in Firefox than Chrome as a web dev? (Despite my incredulity, I'm serious) I'm a web dev and I'd scream at you long before I let you replace my WebKit inspector even with some of the newer Firefox tools.

It has to bee a taste thing, I'm not that sold on the new firefox tools either, I've even submitted some bugs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789675] but firebug is still deep in my work habits, I did see the post about chrome tools, I must admit it does look more advanced, anyway if I could change the font, background and foreground colors I would think of moving to chrome to do my dev work, I'm not feeling the red text on the styles attributes, a green/blue combination like firebug looks better.

Yes I just admitted chrome dev tools are better.

>> Yes I just admitted chrome dev tools are better.

Even when I used FF and as much as I liked Firebug the Chrome Dev Tools are better for me as well.

Haha, I was really confused by:

>I could change the font, background and foreground colors I would think of moving to chrome to do my dev work

I'm sitting here going "...uh, I bet you can do that in IE's tools"? In seriousness though, no, I appreciate your honesty. Everyone has their preferences. I uh, will try to refrain from judging your horrible choices (I'm kidding).

I was mostly worried that something major changed in the last few versions of Firefox. I'm fortunate that my current projects are for myself, and thus I don't venture off of my existing tools too much, even for testing.

You can skin -- change fonts, backgrounds, and foregrounds -- Chrome's dev tools: http://darcyclarke.me/design/skin-your-chrome-inspector/

You can even inspect an inspector to dig right into selectors.

Oh, my, god.

I wish there were flattr for HN (which I had to think about to remember the name of to then mention it).

thats a game changer for me friend, thanks for that, I'll try to replicate Tomorrow Night Theme [https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme] and move on

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