First off, I love Firebug and am VERY appreciative for the work that
has gone into it. I have used it for a while and found it to be an
invaluable tool for what I do.

I work with Firebug's panels to the side. That is, when I open
Firebug, I click the the button that detaches the Firebug window into
a new window of its own. When this happens, the window does not
provide much area to work within. See the following screenshot:

http://www.odaniels.org/temp/firebug/firebug-default.gif

You can see how the "tabbing" that occurs with every child element has
smashed div.post all the way to the right side of the console screen.

Customizing the font and font size is EXTREMELY important, but even
more important than that is the ability to adjust the padding and
margins of each child element. For now, I can go into html.css and
css.css in the default skin and modify .nodebox, .nodeChildBox
and .cssRule a bit and get the following:

http://www.odaniels.org/temp/firebug/firebug-modified.gif

Lots of room compared to the previous version, even though the
buttons / options / search at the top of the console window are all
smashed together. But the work I do with this is tedious, and all the
css changes get reset to defaults when I upgrade to the newest Firebug
and I have to do this work all over again.

So this is my request: I would like to have menu options to set the
font of the windows, as well as having either the ability to set the
size of the margins/paddings within the window or to have it scale
proportionate to the chosen font size. Also, I would like Firebug to
remember if I have the Firebug window attached or detached at
startup.

In addition, I would like a hotkey for Inspect Element. I though that
"Toggle Inspecting" in the shortcuts menu would do this, but it does
not work at all for me.

Thanks!

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As a side note, here are the steps I made to get the console window
looking like screenshot #2:

* Install DavidSys or equivalent pixel font found here:
http://www.dafont.com/bitmap.php

* Change the following in html.css:

.nodeBox {
    position: relative;
    font-family: davidsys;
        font-size: 9px;
    padding-left: 8px;
    -moz-user-select: -moz-none;
}

.nodeChildBox {
    margin-left: 0px;
    display: none;
}

* Change the following in css.css:

.cssRule {
    position: relative;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 1em 0 0 6px;
    font-family: davidsys;
        font-size: 9px;
    color: #000000;
}

Hope this helps.
~ sean

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