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This looks fantastic. If I had this tool in 1995, my career trajectory might have been quite different. I loved graphics but it was so time consuming to make one change, recompile, re-run the program, and then start again to tweak 0.1 to 0.2.

With this editor, after you make the changes, do you have to copy-paste that back into your source to save it?

Slightly unrelated but seeing as how neat Firefox has become, I really feel like I need to switch back to it from Chrome. I went Netscape > IE > Maxthon > Firefox > Chrome. Chrome dev tools are good but Firefox seems even better. Anyone revert back to FF lately?

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Definitely back to Firefox. With all the non-standards compliant features that have been built into Chrome recently, it's a lot slower than it once was. Plus the less support Chrome gets, the less chance they have of destroying web standards. Just watching how Google handles the Android ecosystem should be enough to prove to anyone what would happen if Google had more control over the web. These days if you want an open web, you pretty much need to be at least Google-wary.

Firefox has also made leaps and bounds in memory usage and keeping the UI good looking but usable. Definitely a project worth supporting.

I reverted back to Firefox, but that was only because Google was gettting pretty creepy, and their stance on web-standards seems to have gone pretty downhill since they gained a majority market-share.

To me it just makes sense to support the guys who are working for the internet and world-wide web at large, as opposed to the advertising-company just trying to get more input-data into their big-data profile-crunchers.

This is a completely unfair characterization of the people on the chrome team who deeply believe in the web. It's also a non-sequitur for a thread that should be about discussing Mozilla's announcement and not sullied by this.

> With this editor, after you make the changes, do you have to copy-paste that back into your source to save it?

Currently yes. However, we have plans to make this better soon. (we call them Project Maps, and they're on the roadmap)

I went back to FF earlier this year. The factors were both technical (Firefox has drastically improved from a speed and memory standpoint) and "political" (I'm gradually withdrawing from Google services). I'm still more familiar with the Chrome dev tools, but the default FF ones are coming along nicely.

Initially, I installed a few extensions to make FF as Chrome-like as possible. I disabled them after a while, and I couldn't be happier.

Back to FF, I don't like where Google's going and the tools are getting better.

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