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I switched to firefox for personal use only. I still like chrome for work. It's a good way to try out firefox and it also separates my work and home life which is nice.

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I would use Firefox for work except there doesn't seem to be an equivalent to `chrome://inspect`. That's quite literally the only reason I use Chrome at work besides the obvious (cross browser support). If I could debug Deno/Node apps without Chrome, that would be super.

Have you tried `about:debugging`? Pretty sure both chrome and firefox support a remote debugging protocol. I only know about it because there is a way to hook up VSCode so all the debugging stats end up in the editor instead of the browser.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/about:debuggi... [2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=firefox-...

I've never managed to get that to work with Node.js or Deno. Devices work fine though.

What does chrome://inspect do that Firefox's web developer tools doesn't?

It allows you to connect developer tools to a nodejs instance as if that nodejs instance was running in your browser.

On the firefox side there is node-firefox that should accomplish the job. That hasn't been updated in like 5 years, so who knows if it actually works.

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