> The thing I miss the most is the inline display of AJAX call responses
If I understood correctly, you can have this on Chrome. In Chrome JS Console, do a right click in an empty space, and select "Log XMLHTTPRequests" (or it was something similar).
I have the enabled, however it only shows the URL accessed.
To see the actual response, you have to click the URL, which takes you to the Network panel. Then you have to find the request on the Network panel (no clue why it doesn't deep link to the correct tab), then click Response.
Shamelessly hijacking your comment to ask a question....is there any way (Chrome/Firebug, whatever) to somehow output to console or a log, all javascript execution (ie: as any function is executed, output the function name and the argument values). I know there is some way to turn on debugging and breakpoints, but having very little expertise in javascript and no knowledge of the code I'm looking at, the ability to just dump all activity so I could sift through it later would be tremendously useful.
that works but still not as good as firebug's UI. basically you then need to click on the log entry, it will take you to the network panel and then you need to do another click to view the actual data. firebug has it all there in JSON decoded form and HTML its more convenient and requires a single click.
If I understood correctly, you can have this on Chrome. In Chrome JS Console, do a right click in an empty space, and select "Log XMLHTTPRequests" (or it was something similar).