Console appearance rare

XP Firefox 3.5.2
Most of the time when I press Shift-space, nothing happens.
Rarely do I see the console. This seems to be independent of the web page that I'm visiting.
For example, on wikipedia pages I see no console.
On this page, I see the console.
In fact, I was bewildered for quite a while: "What is all this about? What is a 'console'? What can I do at all with this?"
The requirement to create a github login to log a bug is also too much of a barrrier - but I persevered.

[swannodette]

deeptext,

Is this issue related to the current release?

We thank you for your perserverence. We're hoping that either GitHub or CodebaseHQ will allow for anonymous ticketing. We'll keep you posted.

Thanks,
David

When I press Space-Shift, only sometimes does the console appear. yes current release.
What you really want is to share login from your site to github - of course. Maybe not so easy to do.
When I did see a console, it's seems interesting and powerful.
Thanks for the response.
Oz

[ShiftSpace]

Yes, it's not quite consistent because there's something of a timer involved. This is because we don't want to accidentally trigger the console. You type shift+space more often than you think :) However we're looking to improve this logic in the 1.0 branches.