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As far as my understanding goes (which may not be very far at all), the common base seems to be Chromium. When I want to debug an HTML source (like the one in the article), VSCodium offers me Chrome or Edge as the base browser (none of which I have installed). I wonder why Brave isn't in there, since it's also Chromium-based.


Oh, I think I understand now. You mean when you use the debugger in Visual Studio Code the target browser dropdown only shows Edge or Chrome and not Brave?

That is weird and I wonder if it has something to do that brave hasn't got the CDP methods turned on that allows other software to remotely control it.

In essence, the debugger spawns a new instance of the browser and controls it remotely from VS Code, much like automated test tools do. It would be interesting to hear from Brave if there is interest in showing up there, too.


Yes, that's what I meant. And thank you for the explanation.


Author here: The first sentence explains this.

This isn't a "Here is what browser developer tools in each browser are like".

If you look for news on each of them, check out the post of my colleague Patrick, which does an awesome job covering news in all of them:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/09/devtools-cross-brow...


Oops, seems my last sentence was badly worded. With “in there” I meant the set of browsers offered by VSCodium, not your article. Your article is fine and informative, except that the title makes it seem more general than it actually is.




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