On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 9:55:00 AM UTC+2, Sebastian Zartner wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 5:41:27 AM UTC+2, San wrote: >> >> I didn't realize this major change had happened already. I disabled >> Firebug (the extension) and enabled it as a theme, as you suggested. >> >> One difference I noticed immediately is that there's no more Firebug >> button in my toolbar. Of course I can open the console without it, but >> I liked having the little button turn orange when I hit the f12 key, >> and then turn gray when I hit shift-f12, telling me that Firebug was >> off. Is there no way to turn "off" the developer tools now? Does >> simply closing the console window completely turn them off? (Sometimes >> it makes a functional difference in how code runs, although it >> shouldn't -- it's not just a question of whether the console is >> showing or not.) >> > > As far as I know, the DevTools don't have an option to minimize them like > Firebug has it and when you close them, they are off. > It looks like they had a minimize button earlier > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177463>, though, which > might get reimplemented at some point. See bug 1178218 > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178218>. > > I also miss the little Inspector button that I had in the toolbar next >> to the Firebug button. I see the same icon in the upper-left of the >> console window, and it sort of works, but somewhat erratically. Or I >> can just use the context menu to "Inspect Element"... but that doesn't >> switch on an inspect mode, it's just a one-time action. Is there any >> way to get the Inspect button back in my toolbar to toggle an "inspect >> mode" like before? >> > > The inspector feature in the DevTools works pretty much the same way as > within Firebug. I.e. you can right-click an element within the page and > choose *Inspect Element* (one-time action), or you can switch to the > inspect mode by clicking the inspector button in the upper-left corner of > the DevTools' toolbar. Then you can hover the elements within the page and > when you click an element it gets selected within the source view. > > I realize these are very minor concerns, just little interface things. >> Thanks. >> > > Note that I am not part of the DevTools team, so I'm answering as a user. > Documentation for them is available at MDN > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools>. And if you have > questions about them, you should ask them on IRC or ask on Stack Overflow > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/firefox-developer-tools>. >
Regarding the toolbar buttons I've created bug 1302361 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1302361> and bug 1302363 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1302363> now. Sebastian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/firebug. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/firebug/1cff18a4-a688-4d38-8234-2012920f3694%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
