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I spent my last evening, and this one, on working around the fact that firefox still doesn't support modules in WebWorkers.

And yes, I have a valid reason to use webworker: I'm making writing an online compiler playground.

More than half the time, the firefox debugger plainly crash when opening my app, and I have to open a new tab and retry.

For some reason I can't put a breakpoint on the statement after an if on the same line.

And these are my issue only on the last hour ! I'm using firefox everyday but yes, there is room for improvement.

I expected them to add Time Travel Debugging: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-is-te...

It was working on mac, then they fired a lot of staff, including the one who were developing it, and now they made their own company out of it: https://www.replay.io/

And to the one who says "you can contribute", yeah no, I tried, the official docs (back then) gave you the non-optimal ste^s (full clone of the repo (multiples hours due to upstream servers being slow), full local compilation).

The worst of it is, the doc tell you to compile firefox, so multiples minutes of wait to test a change, a change made to the devtools, which is entierely written in JS.

Oh and of course, you can't plug a debugger on the devtools, so you are stuck with console.logs.

Edit: minutes after writing this comments, my just tab crashed: https://i.imgur.com/s1y1JsO.png



I'm pretty sure I have opened the devtools for the devtools on Firefox before, maybe try using the whole-browser devtools? (I don't remember how to enable it but once it's enabled press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I to open it)


Brave has it all, really.

Eich's back at it again :D.




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