Writing it down this time … so I don’t have to figure it out next time Scott’s Firefox sessions poof away — Firefox stores the session (importantly the tabs that you’ve got opened) at ~/.mozilla/firefox/<funky guid looking thing> default/sessionstore-backups
Tag: firefox
Browser How-To: Using the Developer Console
The developer console will show client-side errors. You can also use it to interact with data on a web page (like the approaches I’ve published to exporting data from Teams). To display the developer console, use Ctrl+Shift+i
When you first display the console, you may want to clear the existing output – it’s difficult to correlate the errors to discrete actions you’ve taken on the website. Once the console is clear, perform the action again and watch for errors as you perform each individual operation.
Clearing console output on Firefox:
Clearing console output on Chrome:
Browser How-To: Hard Refresh
For both Firefox and Chrome, you can hold CTRL while pressing F5 and bypass cache when reloading a web page. This is particularly useful when the JavaScript for a page has been updated — rather than clearing your entire cache, you can hard refresh the page to get the updated JS file.