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Discussion on: DISCUSS: How would the ideal browser for devs be like?

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GrahamTheDev • Edited
  1. Vivaldi - I am a tab fiend and their handling of multiple tabs and tab stacking is just beautiful. Also they do make dev life pretty easy and as it is Chromium I know if it works there I got Chrome covered pretty much.

  2. Would have to be:

    • voice activated stack overflow "hey chrome, what is the bloody syntax for prototype.forEach again, I know I have asked it 20 times this month but one more time please".
    • A sanity check list - "are you really sure you want your font size to be 125rem, did you mean 1.25rem by any chance you dummy?!"
    • something that simply lets me click on an element and then draw a box on the page and say "see this box, this is where I actually want this element, can you tell me which property I botched for the content to end up waaaay over there please?"

A serious answer

I would actually like the items above, but in reality they are a little bit silly 😋

One thing I would actually love to see from a development perspective is a one click button built into the browser that non tech savvy users can use to send performance traces, error information, screenshots etc.

That way when you get that annoying bug report of an issue you cannot replicate they can press a button and send you the information needed.

If this was browser controlled, security and privacy could be easily accounted for I just want to know what "it was slow today" actually means - are you running a 10 year old dual core laptop with a physical HDD on Windows 7 that was running a virus scan for the first time in 3 months and had to wait 3 seconds for a page to load, or do you have a gigabit connection and a monster PC and our application has an actual intermittent issue under certain circumstances?

I am aware we have loads of ways to handle this but building into the browser would be soooo much better.

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Thalita G.

Yay!!!! Fellow Vivaldi user. 🤝 I love the browser mainly for the tab stacking as well haha.

A simple report tool sounds like a really cool idea! Seeing a button like that may also encourage people to actively find bugs or at least don't feel anxious about reporting them. 😀