My Mozilla Wishlist

I’m working on some fixes/improvments to mozCC, and I’ve realized that there’s a few things that would make Mozilla development a lot easier.

First, a way to watch events as they happen. There are several instances where I know I want to respond to an event that the browser fires, but I’m not sure what to hook to. For example, switching tabs. In this case I was able to examine the tabbrowser.xul file and figure it out. But wouldn’t it be easier to just turn on event listening and see the events scroll by?

Second, a XUL introspector. If I want to know how the browser renders an element, it’d be real handy to have the ability to enter introspection mode and selectively reveal the XUL behind an element. Again, this can be accomplished through source exploration, but the idea here is convenience.