Does anybody knows if there is a way to show a javascript code editor in Firefox Developer Tools which looks like firebug\'s?
I find it a lot more convenien
Firefox DevTools has something called Scratchpad which resembles the code editor of Firebug.
It's a separate window, but there's a way to have it as a panel inside DevTools too.
Additionally it supports the ability to save/open scripts, has autocompletion based on tern, pretty-printing, and can even let you execute code in Browser context (which might be useful if you're ever working on the Firefox front-end itself).
Head over to Toolbox options
(hit F12, then click on gear
icon), under Default Developer Tools
check the Scratchpad
(this will add new tab in developer tools, like Console & ... called Scratchpad), click on Scratchpad
to activate that.
As @pbrosset said, in Scratchpad
you can write JS
codes (it's really great) and using Ctrl+R
(you need to select the code for that) or using Run
button, you can run the code. the result will shown in Console
tab, if you want to see Console
& Scratchpad
without moving to their tabs, simply hit Esc
or click on Toggle split console
icon.
Hope this help.
Update
Maybe you should try this add-on Console Sidebar