I like the look of that. It's compact and seems to use space more efficiently than Chrome's.

No it does not [1].

It's one of the reasons I don't like the FF dev tools: it looks nice, but in a useable setup it feels like this: http://www.mlponies.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05...

[1] http://i.imgur.com/DzOS7bB.png

The only difference I see is:

  * method and name column swapped
  * green/yellow status icons added (probably 200/304?)
  * dark color scheme vs light color scheme

Is there something I'm missing? Because it sure doesn't seem like the MS Word super-toolbar you compared it to.

Or is it the tab icons? Chrome recently disabled those by default, and I'd agree that they do seem like clutter.

Edit: Misread the comment you were replying to. I thought you were comparing the number of icons and tabs, but you're just talking about the size of the elements. Firefox is slightly larger, yeah.

There are imho unnecessary padding and huge font sizes. For example: http://imgur.com/Cvzky1K.png

1. Nice contrast, good padding 2. Why not the same padding as 1.? 3. To much vertical padding. Contrast: are those deactivated? 4. To much vertical padding. 5. Why is this font so huge?

Or why is this sidebar font so huge: http://imgur.com/DZO4l4D.png

But I have to admit, the situation got better not worse in the last versions.

But Chrome imho also has the smarter solution in the network panel: workflow over more panes. You click a request and you see the details in the main area replacing the waterfall, not adding another pane fighting for space.

[edit] All a little bit smaller on the left: http://imgur.com/DooYnFY.png