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This is driving me crazy! When FF 12 came out, Firefox's own 'Inspect Element' button on the right-click menu took the place of there the Firebug 'Inspect Element' button used to be.
As I've been doing web development in Firefox forever, my muscle memory still clicks there when I want to use Firebug.
Is there any way to remove the Firefox internal 'Inspect Element' and replace the button on the menu with Firebug's, returning it to its original position (marked NO in the screenshot)?
Download Chromium
Search the whole code base for spect element.
Check out the references to this string, make sure they don't add it to a menu.
Compile your version of Chromium, this will make a version without that menu entry.
Or, if you don't want to go through this for a small change; you'll grow out of the habit over time instead.
Personally, I learned to use that instead as Firebug Lite is quite lacking and I won't go to bloated Firefox.
Lacking as in "access restrictions", bloated as in "Extensive testing shows that Firefox is noticeably slower, both on a clean profile.".
Best Answer
Revisited in Oct. 2019: Both add-ons seem to be gone now, using
devtools.inspector.enabledsetting inabout:configwould be the best way to do this.Revisited in Nov. 26 2014: Menu Editor seems to be deprecated. Menu Wizard looks like a good alternative.
Yes!
3. Drag the Firebug inspect option up to where you would like it
4. ???
5. Profit!