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Not a while ago, I used to switch to Firefox whenever I was working on any webapp or website because Firebug seemed so much more intuitive than Chrome Dev Tools; but for a few weeks now I don't feel the need to do it. In fact Chrome Dev Tools do provide some features that are not available on Firebug that I think are nice and should be ported soon:

1. Computed Style.

2. Timeline - It helps to know what triggers are fired when, without putting log statements.

> 1. Computed Style.

They've been available since... well just about forever: http://i.imgur.com/GGw22.png

I apologize, I simply forgot that they did, even when I have used it enough. In fact when I just checked Firebug again, I realized how easy it feels to use as compared to Dev Tools.
Odd title; confusing for those of us who haven't used TextMate and unnecessarily specific since the feature in question isn't specific to TextMate at all. Surely the title should be "'Go-to-file' and 'Go-to-symbol' shortcuts in Google Chrome Dev Tools...".
What is funny, I use TextMate for more than a year already and thanks to the title I learned what cmd+shift+t does, did not know:) I only knew cmd+t.
Ohh yeah, the find symbol feature is very helpful. I primarily use Sublime Text 2 these days (which has a similar feature)
You have a good point. There is a huge TextMate community from the Mac world and for those that aren't as familiar should hopefully be intrigued by the title. I was trying to go for a short title, but it is already quite long as it is. I may consider changing it... thanks for the suggestion
I guess the title should also mention the fuzzy-matching part of the feature which is not specific to TextMate either, but still a huge win.
Absolutely Awesome! One more thing is needed, however. The ability to be able to save the modified sources to the server (with appropriate security of course, dev-env only). Also the ability to fetch the server sources from the server, if e.g. I'm running a Node.js and I want to debug and edit the JS in Chrome - along with the client side JS, side by side.

The close we programmers are to the "living code", the better. The file-watching, auto-reloading and re-executing BDD's (or TDD's, etc.) like vows (http://vowsjs.org/) get pretty close to it, but it's not the same.

When I'm coding a function, I want to be able to run it anytime (when the syntax is OK of course), and in the environment of my program.

Great stuff. Also similar in-client code editing efforts, Firefox: https://github.com/Gozala/sky-edit, general: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace

Dock to the right is amazing
This seriously excites me the most. I can't wait until this reaches the stable build.