firebug: does the toggle inspect mode shortcut work for you?

Question

Hi everyone,

I love firebug, but I get annoyed by the fact that when using "inspect mode" I cannot (i) place the mouse over the element I am interested in and then (ii) move the mouse to the firebug pane without firebug tracking my mouse movements while on my way there. What happens is that, between the moment I place my mouse over the element of interest to me and the moment I get my mouse onto the Firebug pane, Firebug starts displaying the HTML for the elements over which my mouse moves.

I was happy to find in the docs that one can toggle the inspect mode on/off by pressing (http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Keyboard_and_Mouse_Shortcuts), but this does not work for me on Linux with Firefox 3.5.

Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding the purpose of this keybinding?

I am sure others have struggled with this issue. Is there any other way to deal with this annoyance?

Thanks !

l

Answer 1

To test, I opened Firebug, then typed a letter in the "Add a tag to ignore" box here on stack overflow. When the autocomplete appeared, I hovered over an autocomplete suggestion, and typed ctrl-shift-c, which did indeed inspect the <li> element for me. This is FF 3.5.5, Firebug 1.4.5.

It occurs to me that you may have ctrl-shift-c bound to something in your X Windows configuration. Worth checking.

Answer 2

Mystery solved: this was happening because I had another Firefox extension (Web Developer) installed, which by default binds Control-Shift-C to displaying the CSS for a page. I guess these two amazing extensions must be a frequent combination on many peoples FF setup, so perhaps the devs could agree on non-overlapping default keyboard shortcuts!