Angelina Fabbro introduced this tool on a Web developer conference in Hungary [1] a couple of days ago. Here is a short summary as far as I can recall:
- a couple of decades ago alert() was used by pretty much everybody for debugging, even her :) [2]
- most of the developers use(d|s) Chrome for web development
- this is the first serious dedicated tool for web developers which is not just a browser plugin
you don't have to close a million tabs during development
- they worked together with the Firebug team, there will be no duplicate functionality in the plugin and the browser
- seamless Firebug integration. You can switch between Firebug and default theme, it will not break your workflow
- NOT a new browser which you have to support, same engine as in Firefox, nothing new or special about it
- multiple profiles
- developer friendly default settings like enabled experimental CSS features, etc.
- UX improvements for changing config, like switches for features, so you don't have to dig about:config
- support debugging Android, even the iOS simulator or attached device real time
- the dev team is really looking for feedback, they want to make web developers' life easier and put in features based on feedback
- there will be no built in REST API tester tool like Postman REST Client at first, but I was not the first dev who asked for it, so they will consider it for sure
- it will replace the firefox dev channel
- themeable
- much stable than nightly, but you can try out experimental browser features, so it's a good compromise
- a couple of decades ago alert() was used by pretty much everybody for debugging, even her :) [2]
- most of the developers use(d|s) Chrome for web development
- this is the first serious dedicated tool for web developers which is not just a browser plugin
you don't have to close a million tabs during development
- they worked together with the Firebug team, there will be no duplicate functionality in the plugin and the browser
- seamless Firebug integration. You can switch between Firebug and default theme, it will not break your workflow
- NOT a new browser which you have to support, same engine as in Firefox, nothing new or special about it
- multiple profiles
- developer friendly default settings like enabled experimental CSS features, etc.
- UX improvements for changing config, like switches for features, so you don't have to dig about:config
- support debugging Android, even the iOS simulator or attached device real time
- the dev team is really looking for feedback, they want to make web developers' life easier and put in features based on feedback
- there will be no built in REST API tester tool like Postman REST Client at first, but I was not the first dev who asked for it, so they will consider it for sure
- it will replace the firefox dev channel
- themeable
- much stable than nightly, but you can try out experimental browser features, so it's a good compromise
[1]: http://instagram.com/p/vIiNp_vRXD/
[2]: https://twitter.com/hopefulcyborg/status/530033632636055552