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Here are some features I'm missing:

    Break on attribute or subtree modification
    HTML Node drag and drop (yup! Chrome DevTools have it)
    XPath (I use it for testing)
    FPS monitor and force repaint

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Thanks for the info. What are you wanting to do with xpath? The console supports the $x function, like $x("//body"). Also, HTML node drag and drop is on the radar here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858038

I want to get XPath from a node. I use it in WebDriverJS.

Good to see drag and drop coming.

There was some features that I loved. It's not fair to not mention those:

    CSS autocomplete is much better than Chrome’s
    Code Editor’s Search is just amazing!
    The filter for computed CSS properties is very handy for my work
    Black Theme is great! Please make it easy to write custom themes

One little request, in console. ⌘+K should clean the console.

I've filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987877 for adding a Copy XPath menu item in the inspector

A long time ago I wrote a Firefox plugin to get an XPath:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xpath-checker...

It's open source, so perhaps you could reuse the code from WebDriver:

https://code.google.com/p/xpathchecker/

We have Ctrl-L for clear output.

⌘+K is consistent across other apps on OS X (e.g. Terminal)

But ^L is also consistent with Terminal, across all platforms, at least in bash and other programs that use readline. :)

We've had long discussions and arguing over cmd-k, ctrl-L, and all the shortcuts we could use. cmd-k takes over the search field focus.

This is a bitter pill: any shortcut we choose is a different kind of 'wrong'.

I'd throw in a vote for cmd+k to clear

I'm missing localStorage inspecting and editing. (If it's already there, please tell where :), I haven't really used Firefox developer tools much).

A storage inspector is not part of the tools yet. Some of the functionality for this has landed, but the frontend is still being worked on here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970517.

In the console you can type: inspect(localStorage)

Thanks, but that's not usable enough for me.

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