A few other differences in how the Inspect feature works: In Firebug (on a Mac, anyway) I was able to put a separate "Inspect" button in the Mac's Dock (similar to Windows Taskbar). There doesn't seem to be any separate Inspect button in DevTools. If the DevTools console is attached to the bottom of my browser window, this doesn't matter, since there's a convenient Inspect tool in the upper-left corner of the console. However, if I detach the DevTools console to my second monitor, it's very inconvenient not to have an Inspect button on the same monitor as the main browser window. I end up using the right-click to inspect, but for me the Dock button was faster and more convenient.
Another difference -- not sure I remember this correctly because I haven't used Firebug in a while -- but I seem to recall that the effect of clicking Firebug's Inspect tool on something in my main web page (not in the HTML code) was quite persistent. In other words, I could click something on the web page, and then cruise around in the panel/code views and get different kinds of information about the selected object. In DevTools, the Inspector-selected object seems to deselect itself quickly so I have to frequently re-select it, which is annoying. It's not "persistent" enough. Finally... correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall Inspect in Firebug being a separate mode. I recall it being just a tool that could work across more than one panel mode. However, in DevTools, Inspect seems to be a completely separate panel (with HTML and CSS sub-panels). This makes no sense to me -- why is Inspect a separate panel? You might want to Inspect a page element for HTML, or CSS, or any other panel, and these are panels that already exist (often in more powerful form) separately. Why duplicate them? Why isn't the DevTools Inspect tool universal? In sum, like other people here, I found the Firebug Inspector much more usable. -- 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 firebug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to firebug@googlegroups.com. 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/CAMoMLKhJMGFk4EC73j-r1_oCY7yqVFY91TYFWi3Ywa%3DGU9nPDQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
