When comparing Dot Browser vs Firefox Developer Edition, the Slant community recommends Firefox Developer Edition for most people. In the question“What are the best browsers for web development?” Firefox Developer Edition is ranked 1st while Dot Browser is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Firefox Developer Edition is:
Is the only browser I know with features specifically oriented to aid web development out of the box.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Privacy focused
Has a great add and tracker blocker built in and far more anti-fingerprinting tools than firefox.
Pro Designed specifically for web development
Is the only browser I know with features specifically oriented to aid web development out of the box.
Pro Can be launched alongside Firefox (release version)
Some might find that useless, but that's very practical to dedicate a browser to development.
Pro Feature rich
This browser is the most feature richt browser for web development out of the box.
You can restrict the bandwidth in "Responsive Design Mode" to see how the page performs under unoptimal conditions.
It has predefined profiles for e.g. Ipad, Galaxy S9 and lots more.
Pro Standard complaint
AFAIK, Firefox is the most HTML/CSS/JS standard complaint of all the browsers out there.
Pro Ready for work right out-of-the-box
Pro Fast
It's Firefox. It's fast.
Pro Beta channel
As this branch of firefox uses a beta channel of firefox releases, you will see if future versions will contain breaking changes and give you time to react.
Cons
Con Backed by github.com
GitHub is known for making the ad blocker, libre, and hosting such open source users such as tech pros. This browser was just made to make it more private than Firefox. However, it might crash.
Con Outdated Firefox fork
Even 1 Firefox user doesn't recommend dot browser because it lacks many privacy features.
Con Logs browsing data to Google/Microsoft
According to their privacy policy, they log all the websites to Google and Microsoft browsers in clicks.
Con Another bloatware of Mozilla Firefox
This browser discribes itself as a open source browser but it is bloatware. It is a rip off of Mozilla Firefox which is said to be a RAM eater and github tracks you along the internet.
Con Heavy
Since it has a lot of tools to support debugging and web development, it is considerably heavier than the standard version of Firefox, definitely I don't recommend it for standard web browsing.
Con May be unstable
Since it is a release channel between beta and Nightly, it may be unstable.
Con Lack of support for source maps in blobs
Still a bit buggy support for CSS source maps coming from blobs. The team is working on it though, and the fixes will eventually land in the production code.
Con Not based on Chromium
If you don't want to make your website support non-Chromium browsers, this can be a problem.
Con This project is not yet available for Android
The developer edition is not available for mobile devices, though the beta and nightly channels are available, and can be used for testing future versions of Firefox.
Con Has to be installed with a Mozilla account
