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		rootkea on Nov 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DevTools Challenger for Firefox I simply don't understand why to have separate Developer Edition instead of making available the devtools in stable FF only? Easy to maintain.

auscompgeek on Nov 5, 2015 | [–]

Firefox's devtools are available in all maintained versions of Firefox. Why would Mozilla restrict devtools to releases? How would people test the devtools in that case?

karlshea on Nov 4, 2015 | [–]

Marketing. Chrome DevTools has a much bigger market share.

Plus obviously you're not a real hacker unless your software is light-on-black.

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