{"id":166,"date":"2012-02-07T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-07-19T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T15:57:26","slug":"disable-firefox-native-inspect-element-context-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/disable-firefox-native-inspect-element-context-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"disable firefox native inspect element context menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest update of Firefox to version 10.0, they included some new developer tools which are similar to what is available via Firebug or WebKit&#8217;s developer tools.\u00a0 About time!\u00a0 Unfortunately, I still am so used to firebug that will continue using it instead of these new native development tools.\u00a0 One thing that really grinds my gears was the native &#8220;Inspect Element&#8221; context menu item because it lives directly above the Firebug one.\u00a0 This was extremely frustrating for me because I kept clicking on that instead of the &#8220;Inspect with Firebug&#8221; menu item.\u00a0 This would bring up the native inspector console, which I would then have to close, then go back and right click again and make sure I click on the inspect with firebug menu item.\u00a0 Sigh&#8230;..how annoying.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there is a simple way to disable the native inspect element context menu item.\u00a0 In the Firefox address bar, put &#8220;about:config&#8221; and press Enter.\u00a0 This will bring up Firefox&#8217;s preference configurations.\u00a0 In the &#8220;filter&#8221; search box enter &#8220;inspector&#8221;.\u00a0 This will bring up three configuration preferences.\u00a0 Simply double click on the &#8220;devtools.inspector.enabled&#8221; preference to change it to &#8220;false&#8221; and viola!\u00a0 No more native inspect element in the context menu!\u00a0 Horray.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>A recent update to the firebug extension add&#8217;s config preferences for hiding the default inspector (thanks Ilya). \u00a0Now when you filter your config preferences by searching for &#8220;inspector&#8221;, some new firebug config settings appear as well. \u00a0Simply set &#8220;extensions.firebug.hideDefaultInspector&#8221; to &#8220;true&#8221; in addition to setting &#8220;devtools.inspector.enabled&#8221; to &#8220;false&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/disable_firefox_native_inspector_about_config.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-210\" title=\"disable firefox native inspector about config\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/disable_firefox_native_inspector_about_config.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/disable_firefox_native_inspector_about_config.jpg 541w, https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/disable_firefox_native_inspector_about_config-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t muck around in here too much or you will mess up your firefox configuration.\u00a0 I hope someone finds this useful =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest update of Firefox to version 10.0, they included some new developer tools which are similar to what is available via Firebug or WebKit&#8217;s developer tools.\u00a0 About time!\u00a0 Unfortunately, I still am so used to firebug that will continue using it instead of these new native development tools.\u00a0 One thing that really grinds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesroberts.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}