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Skyscraper built in the Firefox inspector's 3D View

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Re: Skyscraper built in the Firefox inspector's 3D View

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Using FF 16 on XP... I don't have a 3d button in my Inspector? Anyone know how to get one?

I believe it is determined by your video card. You could try fiddling with the about:config settings:

webgl.disabled webgl.force-enabled

Though it wouldn't surprise me if you started to get BSODs.

Re: Skyscraper built in the Firefox inspector's 3D View

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post #3

That's a pretty nifty hack. Wish i thought of that before :) Does anyone actually use the new 3D view in Firefox?

I use it once in awhile, mainly to get a quick conceptual idea of how a website is layed out. Is it super useful? Probably not, but I think it's still a cool and somewhat worthwhile feature.

Re: Skyscraper built in the Firefox inspector's 3D View

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post #10
post #9

Using FF 16 on XP... I don't have a 3d button in my Inspector? Anyone know how to get one?

Also using XP here. Make sure you're on the right bar (Firefox has way too many disparate developer tools). It's Ctrl+Shift+I to bring up the Inspector. There should be a button labeled "3D View" on the far right, next to "Style". I don't think it requires any sort of hardware acceleration, the computer I'm on right now isn't exactly recent...

If it's not there, you have to enable WebGL in the about:config.

Type about:config into the browser bar.

Right click and add a new boolean:

webgl.enabled_for_all_sites

Set to true, restart firefox, and load the site again. Press ctrl+shift+I, and you should see the 3D button in the lower right corner.

Re: Skyscraper built in the Firefox inspector's 3D View

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post #3

That's a pretty nifty hack. Wish i thought of that before :) Does anyone actually use the new 3D view in Firefox?

I find it super useful to get a quick insight into a random page. As I'm still learning a lot about HTML, I can go to a website and see a quick visual breakdown of how the elements are composed together.
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