Hi Tim, thanks for the feedback
Watch Expressions - the new frontend has watch expressions on the right
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:46 AM, <
timkm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, not sure if this goes here, but I have a question about the JS
> Debugger in firefox developer edition.
>
> I currently have 54.0a2 (2017-03-10) (32-bit) installed. Until this most
> recent update, I was pretty sure in the debugger window that you could
> issue console commands. That seems to be gone now, and all I can see in the
> bottom of the window is a little icon like this {} (says Prettify Source).
> Had this functionality been removed now, or is there some sort of toggle to
> turn the console back on in this window? I find it more useful when I set a
> breakpoint to be able to type in a console command in the debugger window
> rather than have to click on the Console window to do so.
>
> Also, I noticed there is now 'Watch Expression' on the left pane, which is
> a feature I've been waiting to return to Dev edition, so that's exciting. I
> have done some searching to see, but is there a timeline as to when the
> full debugger toolset will be back?
>
> What do you mean by this?
> One more thing. Not that I want to compare with Google Chrome, but one of
> this nice things I like about debugging in Chrome is when you set a
> breakpoint, the script window shows all of variable values in the scope
> alongside the code in the debugger window as the script executes. Hopefully
> I am explaining that correctly, I am not sure what you call that feature; I
> can provide a picture if it's unclear. Is this planned for Developer Tools
> in the future?
>
We're going to work on inline previews in Q3. I would to see us have a UI
that is better than the yellow highlight lines :P
>
> All in all, I really like what's been happening with the development of
> this browser, I enjoy using it as an alternative to Chrome as my
> development browser.
>
> Thanks!