Firefox 15 Coming With Souped-Up, Faster Debugger

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @01:31AM from the catching-up-with-the-lisp-machine dept.

StormDriver writes "Firefox 15 has hit the Mozilla pre-beta Aurora channel, and it features a redesigned, built-in debugger." The original weblog post has more. Thanks to improved debugger internals in SpiderMonkey, supposedly code should run just as fast with debugging enabled as without (ever try loading Slashdot with firebug accidentally enabled?). There are also new tools for testing mobile layouts from the comfort of your workstation, and the debugger can attach to remote processes (Something Emacs users have enjoyed for years now, albeit in a hackish manner and without support for mobile Firefox).

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Re:So in normal development by slashmydots · 2012-07-11 01:52 · Score: 1, Offtopic

15.0 is like 3.9, right?
I'm still trying to figure out why I'm posting this with 13.0.1 and it says there are no updates. What is 14 going to have, a new start page and a little dancing animated monkey? Are they already done with it? Why hasn't it been released? Why are they working on 15 already? Why don't they stop releasing versions in rapid succession so my company can actually use firefox?