mikeratcliffe

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Installing a VPN from the Linux CLI(flailingmonkey.com)
1 points by mikeratcliffe 11y ago|0 comments
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by mikeratcliffe 11y ago
Fonts can be rendered completely differently on different operating systems, which often results in a different line height. Controls such as buttons can also be rendered differently on different operating systems, particularly the border-r
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by mikeratcliffe 11y ago
Firefox 'cos it's awesome!
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
"Until that number changes I'm not switching to back to Firefox." Maybe you should switch then, why? A lot of this information is subject to interpretation. # of Vulnerabilities in 2014: Chrome: 127 Firefox: 108 The code expl
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
Firefox uses compartments per domain instead, which is a great alternative to process per tab: "Some readers might wonder how compartments compare to per-tab processes as they are used by Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Compartmen
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
you can always go to about:support and click "Reset profile..."
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
hehe... read the add-on comments.
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
Steve, the browser debugger should work with all extensions... what isn't working for you?
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
So, you are frustrated because: 1. Mozilla are improving the extension architecture and developer tools too quickly for you to keep up with and that leads to lots of documentation. 2. Because Mozilla don't want people to use their exte
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View JQuery and JQuery Live Events in Firefox Developer Tools(flailingmonkey.com)
1 points by mikeratcliffe 12y ago|0 comments
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
So you want something more like this? http://i.imgur.com/MCKla78.png We have it working and will be adding it very soon. It will also be very easy for library authors to add their own event parsers to our tools.
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View DOM events in Firefox Developer Tools(flailingmonkey.com)
4 points by mikeratcliffe 12y ago|0 comments
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
Our devtools have unit tests that run for every tiny change that is made to Firefox. Building the tools in gives much more stability. We are also using and exposing a lot of low level Firefox stuff and fixing bugs as a result. So in short y
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
If it was an extension we would lose stability because our devtools have unit tests that test against every Firefox change.
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
Firefox is faster these days. If you find it slower then you probably have addons that are slowing things down. Try disabling your addons and enable them one by one to find the culprit.
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Hack your family: Adopt a child(flailingmonkey.com)
1 points by mikeratcliffe 12y ago|0 comments
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by mikeratcliffe 12y ago
We implemented it that way so that we wouldn't have a never ending list of "the browser is slow when devtools are open" bugs. We do plan on making the disable cache toggle more visible (probably with the other buttons at the
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by mikeratcliffe 13y ago
Can you try running in Firefox's safe mode and let us know if you have the same issue... sound to me like one of your extensions is leaking.
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by mikeratcliffe 13y ago
Regarding point #2: URLs will soon be clickable in the markup, rule and computed views.
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by mikeratcliffe 13y ago
Disabling the cache for a single tab still does not work. Maybe somebody could find a way to workaround this though. We just don't want to disable the cache globally as this could cause issues in other windows.
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How should the Firefox Developer Tools Highlighter look and act?(flailingmonkey.com)
1 points by mikeratcliffe 13y ago|0 comments
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Debugging Thunderbird using Firefox Developer Tools(flailingmonkey.com)
2 points by mikeratcliffe 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikeratcliffe 13y ago
This is a great place to start: http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/
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The History of Firebug(flailingmonkey.com)
2 points by mikeratcliffe 13y ago|0 comments
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Why is it awesome to work at Mozilla?(flailingmonkey.com)
1 points by mikeratcliffe 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikeratcliffe 13y ago
Inlining all of your images as data URIs in your CSS is not a good idea because it will block the rest of the stylesheet from loading whilst images will not.
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by mikeratcliffe 13y ago
Yes, we also have plans for HTML editing that I think everybody will be very pleased with.
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by mikeratcliffe 13y ago
We have a bunch of Object Inspector requests and we will get onto them when we get chance: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?component=Developer...
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by mikeratcliffe 13y ago
We are working on that. We also plan on adding multi-highlight for when e.g. you are in a selector in the style editor and a bunch of other goodies.
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by mikeratcliffe 13y ago
I think it is mostly that devs often don't have an online presence. Building your online presence and contributing to open source projects really helps recruiters see what you are capable of in the real worl.

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