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The glsl shader editor isn't announced in the release notes. It is supposed to be included in FF 27.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/11/live-editing-webgl-shaders...

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And I just ported WebGL Inspector to FF, though it's been waiting in the AMO review queue for a while...

Anyways, powerful new tools for developing WebGL.

It was mentioned in yesterdays release notes (draft). The note seems to have been removed now. Anyway, it said something that the tool did not made it for this release.

Edit: As Jare mentioned (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178225), the editor is disabled by default. Check Toolbox options.

The GLSL editor is really great, with just one thing making it a pain to use. Namely, the split between the vertex and fragment shader is always vertical (apart from when the tools are really thin overall). Does anyone know how I can force it to use a horizontal split?

While I'm whining, is it possible to show the console at the same time as viewing the source for files? The fact that I have to switch between the console and source tabs in FF is pretty much the only reason I use Chrome for debugging.

At least in current Nightly, you can hit the Esc. key, to pop up the console regardless of the panel you're currently using (à la Chromium, basically). I'm not sure in which release this landed, though.

For the vertical split thing, opening a bug is the easiest way to get the feature in [1].

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c... (this is a URL with the right bugzilla component. just log in, fill the blanks and submit)

> At least in current Nightly, you can hit the Esc. key, to pop up the console regardless of the panel you're currently using

This split console feature landed in 28 (so it is moving up to Beta now): https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/split-console-pretty-print...

It is, just disabled by default in the console settings.

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