Paul Rouget

> - completion while typing

It's there.

> - display JavaScript data structures in more visual way

Sort of? Is the existence of the 'inspect' function enough?

> - breakpoints on DOM changes, events and Ajax requests

I'm not sure about this. I mean, you can set the breakpoints in code per usual but I expect you mean setting them on the nodes themselves and perhaps global breakpoints in the net panel?

> - profile network, memory and cpu usage

This sort of profiling?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Performance

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monitor#Performance_analysis

> - navigate cookies, indexdb and websql databases

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Storage_Inspector

By the by, WebSQL isn't part of any standardization track and will not be implemented in Firefox as it stands, and neither will IE it looks like.

> - reformat JavaScript code

You mean "prettify source"? If so, yes.

> - CSS editor

There's the Style Editor, and the side pane of the Inspector.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Style_Editor

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector/How_to/Examine_and_edit_CSS

> - work as IDE

I guess the Scratchpad is the closest thing to that. So technically, no. As a side note, there is the WebIDE for Firefox OS development.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Tools/Scratchpad

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Tools/WebIDE

> - debugger API to work together with IDEs like…

I started in DOS watching over my brother's shoulder. (There was no GUI back then.) I used to make batch files and such.

Eventually I grew to love bash. I am sure there are plenty of keyboard shortcuts I don't know, but I find using the command line to be quicker than any other form of communicating with the computer.

I use keyboard shortcuts in Firefox, and occasionally dream of an Awesome Bar that works like bash.

I also really like using the 'move-cursor-a-word-left/right' and 'move-cursor-to-end/beginning-of-line' and 'move-cursor-to-top/bottom-of-textarea' functions you can find in almost every GUI.

Finally, I use Spotlight to load all my applications: I hit cmd-space and then it's usually 1 key to load my most commonly used applications, and generally 3-4 in worst case.

My suggestion: use the Terminal for everything: Learn to edit text files in emacs or vi, use a command line SQL browser, do source control from the command line, and learn sed, awk, and cut (plenty of tutorials out there). Use the keyboard in the browser and in GUI textareas as much as possible.

Here is a neat site which has turned up in a few of my Google searches: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse

Finally, shameless self-plug, I have been using this simple piece of code every day for a couple of years, a command-line (tab-completed) notebook for bash: https://github.com/nchelluri/notes .

HTH.

Edit: I keep looking at this page every few months, but it never seems to be compatible…

Sounds like Mozilla should invent a low level language with great safety guarantees, maybe even call it after some form of oxidation process[1]. Then make a browser engine called after a motor[2], and then NOT axe the team responsible for it[3].

I think the last part might be crucial.

[1] https://www.rust-lang.org/

[2] https://servo.org/

[3] https://paulrouget.com/bye_mozilla.html