Your Primary Development Browser

Tilluss · 8 Mar 2010 at 14:32

I'm curious as to what the OcUK web devs use as their primary development browser.

I've been using firefox for a long time due to it having the luxury of the firebug add-on. I really wanted to use chrome and the only reason i didn't was because of the lack of this feature.. that was until I realised chrome had the same feature built actually built in this morning.

So now I use chrome due to it being fast and using instanced process tabs.

What do you use and your reasons why?

gord · 8 Mar 2010 at 14:38

Firefox. I just trust it to render what I build properly and it generally supports new additions to the specs and frameworks before I find out about them.

AJK · 8 Mar 2010 at 14:40

Firefox w/Firebug

Cuchulain · 8 Mar 2010 at 14:46

IE8 (with Dev. tools if needed) first, then compatibility mode, then IE7 in IEtester. If it's ok in them then 9 times out of 10 it's fine when tested in Firefox/Opera and Safari.

Immsy · 8 Mar 2010 at 14:51

I have 3 installed, IE8 is primary with firefox and Google Chrome. As I mainly develop in Flash it generally doesnt really matter on the browser.

GravyMonster · 8 Mar 2010 at 15:06

Firefox with Firebug primarily for development.

Then a test in all the following before going live:
IE 5.5/6/7/8
FF 3/3.5 + Mac
Chrome 4
Safari 4 + Mac
Opera 10

gord · 8 Mar 2010 at 15:26

Have you got those on a VM Spunkey? I need to sort out a better test environment, because mine is broken.

GravyMonster · 8 Mar 2010 at 15:32

Nope, we have them all natively on an XP machine - except the Mac ones, obviously.

If you need a quick way of testing in the old IEs you could try IETester

MDrX · 8 Mar 2010 at 15:42

I have found IETester to not be all that reliable. I go with a VM install of XP for IE6.

Firefox for development with Firebug, Web Dev Toolbar, ColorZilla, Tamper Data, and Live HTTP Headers all used daily.

DTWD · 8 Mar 2010 at 15:51

Start in FF, once it's looking/working correctly fire up each of the browsers and begin writing the overrides/exploits...fun.

Dj_Jestar · 8 Mar 2010 at 17:01

AJK said:
Firefox w/Firebug

Tripnologist · 8 Mar 2010 at 17:25

I test as I go in Firefox with Firebug and then just before we go live, I check in IE7, IE8, Opera, Chrome and Safari on PC and FF and Safari on mac. 98% of the time I don't need to do anything.

Then I open it up in IE6 and depending on how large and complex the site is, fix either 1 or 2 things.. or many things.

Tweaker · 8 Mar 2010 at 17:56

Firefox with Firebug is best

reefoid · 8 Mar 2010 at 23:11

Chrome for me, although I've been using Opera's Dragonfly plugin for the last week and find its pretty good so may move to Opera soon.

BFCTom · 9 Mar 2010 at 00:11

Firefox with Firebug

Craig321 · 9 Mar 2010 at 00:19

Tilluss said:
I'm curious as to what the OcUK web devs use as their primary development browser.

I've been using firefox for a long time due to it having the luxury of the firebug add-on. I really wanted to use chrome and the only reason i didn't was because of the lack of this feature.. that was until I realised chrome had the same feature built actually built in this morning.

So now I use chrome due to it being fast and using instanced process tabs.

What do you use and your reasons why?

Firefox with FireBug & Web Developer Toolbar.

Never crashes, displays stuff properly and looks awesome with TwentyTenBuddy + some other add-ons

Mattus · 9 Mar 2010 at 01:20

Firefox with Firebug. It's the most useful web dev tool that I've ever encountered.

Cuchulain said:
IE8 (with Dev. tools if needed) first, then compatibility mode, then IE7 in IEtester. If it's ok in them then 9 times out of 10 it's fine when tested in Firefox/Opera and Safari.

... except IE dev tools are really awkward to use compared to Firebug. The Chrome equivalent isn't bad, though.

Inquisitor · 9 Mar 2010 at 01:27

Firefox with Firebug wins hands down for development. I use Chrome as my every day browser, as it's far better than Firefox on that front, though.

eXor · 9 Mar 2010 at 08:23

Firefox + Firebug + Web Developer.

I'm currently using IETester to test IE 5.5 / 6 but I will set up Win2K and Win XP VMs.

What do people without access to Macs do?

Tilluss · 9 Mar 2010 at 09:07

eXor said:
Firefox + Firebug + Web Developer.

I'm currently using IETester to test IE 5.5 / 6 but I will set up Win2K and Win XP VMs.

What do people without access to Macs do?

Use the windows versions of the browsers?

It's good to see that most use firefox with firebug, I thought that would be the case but I was interested anyway.

If anyone was interested in trying out the chrome version of firebug then just right click on a page and click 'Inspect Element' in chrome and it will popup. You can also dock it using one of the buttons at the bottom, and if you want to pause a script at a breakpoint or exception, go into scripts and click 'Pause On Exceptions' at the bottom (looks like a stop sign with a pause on it).

Thanks for the feedback