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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

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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

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