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The one thing keeping me from using FF dev tools is the fact that there's no interactive console in the debugger. Seems like you have to instead create watch expressions for everything you want to check. Even GDB lets you poke around after a breakpoint... For anything Javascript-related you're still gonna have to install Firebug.

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As mentioned on the hacks post, ever since Firefox 23 the web console is actually working on the same context as the debugger, when execution is paused on a breakpoint or debugger statement. You can use all the familiar tools in there to examine the current state of the page.

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