586803 - Web Console doesn't open on various web sites

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 583476

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Patrick Walton (:pcwalton)]

The Web Console does not open on twitter.com, and many other sites as well.

Requesting blocking status for Firefox 4, as this is a serious bug.

Comment 1

[Patrick Walton (:pcwalton)]

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* Call to xpconnect wrapped JSObject produced this error:  *
[Exception... "'Error: Cannot get outputNode by id' when calling method: [nsIConsoleListener::observe]"  nsresult: "0x8057001c (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_JS_OBJECT)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]
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Comment 2

[David Dahl :ddahl]

It seems that it is only when you are logged out of twitter this is the case.

Perhaps we should make a list of sites that have trouble and the error messages they produce?

Comment 3

[David Dahl :ddahl]

On Cnn, (linux build) the console only opens to a fraction of the height it usually opens to, on windows it won't open on the front page. Perhaps this bug should become a meta bug?

Comment 4

[David Dahl :ddahl]

twitter is attaching a console of their own to the window before we invoke our own. This bug should be about how to deal with an existing console object and how to do the right thing.

Comment 5

[Kevin Dangoor]

There is a bug about dealing with an existing console object (bug 583476).

Here's what I saw this morning on my Mac:

went to cnn.com, console wouldn't open at all
clicked on a link which took me elsewhere in cnn-land, and the console opened immediately (no action on my part)
went back to cnn home page and the console was open with log output

I just tried it in a new window and was able to reproduce the variation of this where the console opens to less than its full height.

Comment 7

[David Dahl :ddahl]

Perhaps we combine this bug with bug 583476 ?

Comment 8

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> ************************************************************
> * Call to xpconnect wrapped JSObject produced this error:  *
> [Exception... "'Error: Cannot get outputNode by id' when calling method:
> [nsIConsoleListener::observe]"  nsresult: "0x8057001c
> (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_JS_OBJECT)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]
> ************************************************************

I've seen this before. It's a different issue.


David: yeah, I think we should combine the two bugs. They are reporting the same issue.

Comment 9

[Kevin Dangoor]

closing in favor of bug 583476 (which is already marked as a blocker)

Comment 10

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

dupe, canceling blocking request.