[rackforms]

I positively adore Firebug, with the DOM panel alone being worth its weight in gold.

As far as our new environment: The scratchpad seems like a neat tool for larger code 'experiments', but to it's placement in the overall tools is puzzling. The Scratchpad and Console should be combined without needing to enable "Toggle split console", at least for bottom docking.

Firebug brilliantly combined these two to form the ultimate JavaScript REPL, doing so in the way that maximized available screen space (side by side). To replicate the same functionality the new system requires two space wasting windows spanning the entire width of the browser.

Also, and am I crazy here: but one of the commands to run code in the Scratchpad is Command-R. That just refreshes the entire page, which would appear to make it the worse short-cut in the history of modern software. The one shortcut to run code that does seem to work, Command-I, is incredibly inconvenient to type. Yes we have buttons, but shortcuts are nice too.

Overall though: Firebug was and has been a revelation. It's empowered me to write better code in less time, and I'm pleased to see it live on.

[mercer]

I've been using Chrome's dev tools for quite a while now. Can you tell me if Firebug or Firefox' dev tools have any features that I'm missing out on?