258706 - Easy way to open active page in DOM Inspector

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Other Applications :: DOM Inspector, enhancement)

Description

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

It would be nice if the DOM Inspector could prefill its address-bar with the URL
of page/tab it was launched from. The address-bar could also be selected, so
that user could rewrite its value directly without any dealing with focus or
doing any mouse-clicking ...

well, actually I would expect DOM Inspector to load the active page at startup
automatically; but prefilling the URL would be good enough too. :o)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Try using CTRL+SHIFT+I from the page you wish to inspect.  :-)

Comment 2

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

Alex: This will open DOM Inspector without the browser frame; you have to open
it manually and reload the Inspector respectively. (Or am I wrong? Otherwise I
would reopen this.)

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Correct.  The idea is that when you press Ctrl+Shift+I you already have a
browser window open, and thus the browser frame opening in Inspector would be
spurious.  While the case could be made to simply load a new copy in inspector's
browser frame, that is not always sufficient for debugging pages which have been
manipulated with JavaScript, or have dynamic content which may change quite
often (e.g. news websites).

Comment 4

[timeless]

ctrl-shift-i,shift-tab,enter