1066026 - DOM explorer like Firebug

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 704094

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Marvin Fröhlich]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
Build ID: 2014072000

Steps to reproduce:

The Developer Tools should feature a DOM explorer like Firebug does. This is the major drawback and the main reason, why Firebug still has to be installed.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Why is evaluating "window" in the console, clicking that, and making the sidebar bigger, not an acceptable way to do this for you?

In other words, what is it about Firebug's version of object inspection that's better than what devtools' object inspection does?

Comment 2

[Marvin Fröhlich]

I didn't even know about this option. Ok, it works in a way. But hey, come on. You can't say this is up to par with Firebug's solution. I firebug I only have to click on "DOM" and am able to browse through the complete DOM tree without typing anything and knowing about any hidden doors.

So, devtools already feature a DOM explorer. I think, making it available to all of us non enlightened people through a clear menu option would be a great thing. And you could even do better then firebug by adding a shortcut from the Inspector to "show in complete DOM tree", which firebug lags. But firebug has the complete DOM tree and an "isolated" sub tree of an element.