The DOM Inspector was checked in to the Mozilla Firebird trunk today and it should appear in tomorrow’s nightly builds. For those not aware, the DOM Inspector is the ultra-useful browser extension for — among other things — analyzing CSS within a webpage. For instance, you can select an element on a page and the DOM Inspector can tell you how the document’s CSS rules cascaded to produce that element’s styling.
I’m really stoked about this check-in since the missing DOM Inspector was one of the few things holding me back from Mozilla Firebird. Now if I can just get URLs from Thunderbird to open in a new Firebird tab, I’ll be all set :). And, some say that there’s a solution to the open-new-tabs issue as well.
I don't doubt that switching to Firebird/Thunderbird is a Good Idea(tm), but I'm still unsure when the development team will officially make the switch. Reading over the roadmap, they say that “[it’s] clear now that we will not be able to switch to Mozilla Firebird by the Mozilla 1.5 final milestone” — but they don't elaborate on when they expect that switch might be :-/.
Update 11-13: I’ve discovered that Firebird still doesn’t have inline autocomplete in the location bar (URL bar). Bummer.
The lack of inline autocomplete drives me nuts too. I see no point for the pull down method ever. If I wanted something pull down I would have clicked a button or something.
I, on the other hand, prefer the current behavior and was always annoyed by the inline autocomplete; I prefer that when I type an address and press enter it actually goes to the address I typed rather than what it thinks I meant. And when I do want it to complete my typing, it shows me a list of matching sites and I can easily press tab-enter if the first item matches. Personal preference, I guess.
Inline autocomplete interferes with the use of shortcuts. Perhaps if modifierKey-return/enter were available to enter as typed rather than as completed (and a preference for vice versa) we’d all be happy.
Is there anyway to stop the autocomplete from happening? I know you can lock the history.dat, but that also stops visted links from marking. I just want to prevent autocomplete on the location bar.
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I’ve been messing around with HTMLArea3 (getting it to load and unload dynamically because 100+ HTMLAreas on one page is