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Give Firefox Developer Edition a try, if haven't already, and are looking for more robust development tools.

>>markan+(OP)
What are the differences compared to regular Firefox?

>>markan+(OP)
Looking at https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/developer/ I'm a bit confused... Which features are just new features which will soon be in the main Firefox DevTools, and which are specific to installing the Developer Edition?

>>dns_sn+A3
Firefox Developer Edition is targeted towards developers, and contains the latest development tools available.

New features also land quicker, as it is built against Firefox beta.

>>markan+(OP)
Maybe I was just unlucky, but the one time I tried it, it refused to launch.

I'd rather not have my professional work tools be built against a beta channel when there are better alternatives.

>>frabcu+R3
AFAIK, Firefox Developer Edition is currently just a repackaging of Firefox Beta and doesn’t have different devtools. It used to be a rebranding of Firefox Aurora (an alpha release channel between Firefox Nightly and Beta, now retired) with a different theme and a few different devtool setting changes.

>>zdragn+Rm
I have been using the Developer Edition since 2014, when it was released, without issue. You are not locked into a single browser. Personally I use more then one browser, and professionally I always validate against multiple browsers.

I find different browsers excel at different things in regards to the developer experience. As an example I appreciate that Firefox had a formatted JSON view without requiring an extension. However Chrome also has capabilities that I wish were included in Firefox.