Chrome DevTools Survey & Feedback

Hey y'all.

The Chrome DevTools team wants to make the tools work best for you. We've been adding a bunch of new features recently; things we're pretty sure you'll love. Naturally we're always looking to make them better. So please share with us some details below.

This survey is a touch long (it's just a one-pager, though). All questions are optional, so answer what you like, but we rely on your feedback to improve the tools.

After you submit the survey, you'll get a few links where you can learn the latest and greatest in the DevTools. Also if you want to edit your response later, you can do that too.

Thanks!

What is your primary browser for developing?

Chrome

Firefox

Safari

Opera

What is your primary browser for browsing?

Chrome

Firefox

Safari

Opera

What text editors or IDEs do you primarily use?

Textmate

Sublime Text 2

vim

Emacs

WebStorm / IntelliJ / Eclipse

Visual Studio

Other:

Offline

What of the following technologies do you use in your projects?

Application Cache

WebSQL

IndexedDB

Web Workers

Shared Workers

localStorage

FileSystem API

Web Sockets

Are you developing offline-capable apps?

Not really, no

Sometimes

Often or yes

Clear selection

Is the way the DevTools exposes storage & connectivity info useful and easy to use?

Network

How often do you use the DevTools to isolate network issues?

Never

Occasionally

Often

Daily

Clear selection

Is the way the Network panel reports its data useful and easy to use? How well are you able to use the data to solve your problems?

Are you satisfied with the network support in the DevTools? Do you use SPDY? Do you need network info on plugin traffic? Any other network-specific requests?

Heap profiler

Do you care about the memory consumption of your app?

Not really, no

Some

A lot

Clear selection

Are you aware of how the DevTools can help you profile memory consumption?

Not really, no

A little bit

I've used it

I'm using them regularly

Clear selection

What was your experience using the memory timeline & heap profiler?

Runtime & Graphics Performance

Do you have specific performance goals for your app?

Not really, no. ("It should be fast.")

A few mental goals

Performance is top of mind for me

Clear selection

How often do you use the DevTools to find performance issues?

Never

Occasionally

Often

Daily

Clear selection

What runtime performance features do you use?

Timeline Events mode

Timeline Frames mode

Memory Timeline and DOM counter

CPU profiler

Is the way the Timeline reports its data useful and easy to use? How well are you able to use the data to solve the problem?

Do you need better insight into and debugging capabilities for <canvas> and WebGL?

Yes, for canvas

Yes, for WebGL

I don't really need either

Mobile

Do you care about how your site/app looks on mobile devices?

Not really, no

A little

Yes

Mobile is a #1 priority for me

Clear selection

Are you aware of how the DevTools can help with emulating mobile scenarios?

Not really, no

A little bit

I've played with them some

I use the mobile emulation features regularly

Clear selection

What mobile emulation features have you found useful?

Device metrics, touch emulation, geolocation spoofing, deviceorientation spoofing, useragent spoofing...

What other mobile emulation and device override features you would like to see ?

Chrome on Android has remote debugging over USB. Can you live with USB debugging or must you have wireless debugging?

It's fine as it is now.

I can live with the USB connection, though installing Android SDK is too many steps

Doing remote debugging over wireless is very important to my workflow

Clear selection

Console

Describe your console workflow.

There are two primary ways people work with the console: logging to the console from within their app code and working interactively with it (at a breakpoint or at rest). How do you use it typically?

Usablity & Discoverability

How would you rate the discoverability of features in the DevTools?

It's very hard to find features that are there

Everything is easy and within reach

Clear selection

Any more to add?

How would you rate the usability of features in the DevTools?

Hard to figure out

Super easy to use

Clear selection

Any more to add?

Describe your last "A-ha!" moment with the DevTools.

What are your top usability, user experience annoyances?

Authoring & Workflow

Do you use LiveReload, CodeKit, RefreshCSS, Yeoman or another tool to refresh your browser view based on changes from your editor?

Yup

Nope

Clear selection

Do you use devtools-autosave, tin.cr or another tool to save changes made in the DevTools (Styles pane or Sources panel) back to disk?

Yup

Nope

Clear selection

If you're using the editor in the Sources panel regularly, is it good enough? What would make it better for consistent and regular use?

Do you use the Audits panel?

No, not really

I use PageSpeed or YSlow instead

Sometimes

Regularly

Clear selection

You

What do you primarily develop?

Web sites

Web apps

Clear selection

Do you author unit tests for your app?

Not really, no

I try to but typically don't

A little

Most of the time

Yes

Clear selection

Do you write your application code in modules?

Not really, no

Sometimes

Often or Yes

Clear selection

Your turn

Are there any tools or features you think are missing that would better help you develop your webapps?

How do you use the DevTools within your typical workflow?

Between your IDE/editor, the DevTools, and the browser, what is your activity flow between things?

How could the DevTools better support developing and debugging with 3rd party JS frameworks and libraries?

What sort of questions do you really want the DevTools to answer for you?

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