1180838 - Need to be able to re-start and debug initialization of a remote target

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: about:debugging, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

It's typical with remote debugging tools to need to be able to debug the initialization of the main script:

* for a given program ( say a worker ) the debugger needs to be able to break on the first line of execution so the user can debug initialization
* it should be possible to re-load the sources and re-start the program in order to do this to effect Ctrl+Shift+R-style debugging for things that aren't web pages.

Comment 1

[James Long (:jlongster)]

So you are talking about things that aren't webpages, right? Anything other than workers that you have in mind?

Comment 2

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

FxOS apps are another example.  WebIDE already supports this via reload (just like a web site), so let's be sure to preserve when folding WebIDE bits back into the browser.

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Remote apps like Thunderbird would probably also be nice, I hope we can get this via side-effects of you fixing it for other targets :-)