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I've really been blown away by Firefox lately, it's looking better and better. I'm still not confident enough to make it my primary browser for dev though; Chrome's dev tools are just amazing.

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Chrome's dev tools are the only thing keeping me with it. I use Firefox at home, and the dev tools have improved lots over the last year, but there are a few small annoyances compared to Chrome.

I switched to Safari recently for my main browsing. My life has significantly improved. Chrome was just too damn slow, and I always stayed with it because I thought I needed the extensions and the features that Safari lacked, and that Chrome iOS was better.

Turned out I didn't, and Safari has lots of great features that are well thought through.

I still use Chrome for web dev, but it only runs a single tab with the web app I'm working on.

Try new things! :)

It's weird that everyone is praising Chrome's dev tools, I've been using Firebug and now default Firefox dev tools for a long time, but whenever I get to debug some Chrome-related bug, Chrome's dev tools make me extremely frustrated. The UI is very small for some reason which makes it hard to click on anything. It's very unintuitive and for the life of me I couldn't even find the place where I can view the page's CSS. Oh, and there appeared to be no way to detach it or get it out of the way so it doesn't eat the precious vertical space. Guess it's mostly a matter of which one you're used to.

Chrome's dev tools are detachable: top right corner, might have to hover over it.

i moved to exclusively using firefox about 8 months ago and loved it. chrome was good ... the key word being "was"

It keeps getting better and better for sure.

Now, if only they could fix bugs hanging around for more than 6 years, it would be cool too. ie: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488725

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