I recently tried switching to Firefox at the place I'm currently freelancing at. Not too much front-end stuff going on, just a bit of CSS here and a bit of JS there.
The two little things that annoyed me most:
When inspecting an element, the element is per default collapsed (i.e. it's children are not shown). Often, I want to see the children as well - one more unnecessary click. This may be a good design decision if the tools are running on a laptop screen inside the main browser window, but I'm using two monitors and the tools take a whole screen.
Related, my main monitor has a terrible (=no) contrast between white and light gray if viewed from some angles. Often, if I inspect an element, I'm missing the highlight (light gray on white)... Yep, I should probably play with the monitor settings, although FF seems to be the only tool I have this problem with.
These are obviously not big issues and I don't miss the Chrome tools too much, so I'm sticking with FF. Keep up the good work!
I just tried inspecting an element in Chrome and it didn't automatically expand to show the children. That's the behavior I would have expected. Interesting that it behaves differently for you. Are you sure you're not inspecting the child, thinking you are inspecting the parent, which would appear to be expanded in that case?
Firefox offers a dark theme in the inspector's settings, maybe try that. I personally don't like it though.
Hrm. Maybe the difference I'm noticing is that if I click on text, Chrome will expand the surrounding tag (e.g. <p> or <a>) while FF will keep it closed.
I haven't done any side-by-side testing of Chrome and FF (and am currently not working), so I can't reproduce the issue now.
The two little things that annoyed me most:
When inspecting an element, the element is per default collapsed (i.e. it's children are not shown). Often, I want to see the children as well - one more unnecessary click. This may be a good design decision if the tools are running on a laptop screen inside the main browser window, but I'm using two monitors and the tools take a whole screen.
Related, my main monitor has a terrible (=no) contrast between white and light gray if viewed from some angles. Often, if I inspect an element, I'm missing the highlight (light gray on white)... Yep, I should probably play with the monitor settings, although FF seems to be the only tool I have this problem with.
These are obviously not big issues and I don't miss the Chrome tools too much, so I'm sticking with FF. Keep up the good work!