1257833 - Add "Open Response in New Tab" to network monitor

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, enhancement, P2)

Description

[coviex]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160303134406

Steps to reproduce:

1/ Open Tools->web Developer -> Network
2/ Make an ajax request
3/ Right click on the address and see that there is no "Open Response in New Tab" option in the context menu


Actual results:

no "Open Response in New Tab" option in the context menu


Expected results:

"Open Response in New Tab" should be in the context menu as it was in Firebug and you announced full Firebug features implementation starting from Firefox 44.

Comment 1

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Yes, this should be implemented to reach parity with Firebug features.

Thanks for the report,
Honza

Comment 2

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

I do see "Open In New Tab" in the context menu. Should this be closed ?

Comment 3

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to Tim Nguyen :ntim from comment #2)
> I do see "Open In New Tab" in the context menu. Should this be closed ?

This menu open the source URL instead of the Response content, I guess.

Comment 4

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

(In reply to YF (Yang) from comment #3)
> (In reply to Tim Nguyen :ntim from comment #2)
> > I do see "Open In New Tab" in the context menu. Should this be closed ?
> 
> This menu open the source URL instead of the Response content, I guess.
Yes, Firebug has two actions:

1) Open Response In New Tab: opens the response body in new tab. E.g. for image it shows base64 encoded binary data.
2) Open In New Tab: opens the URL in new tab (just like the current "Open In New Tab" action in DevTools)

This bug report should implement #1

Honza

Comment 5

[Matt V]

The "Open response in new tab" feature is critical for diagnosing ajax POST responses, whereby the action is only valid once and the error returned is in html format.

I am growing very tired of sifting through html code in the response to find the code error and line number. Please add this feature!

Comment 6

[Ojaswa Sharma :ojaswa1942]

Indeed a much-needed feature!
Does firefox provide something to view any type of file type in the browser (such as text or json or binary, similar to pdf)? We can use the same to open the response in a new tab.

Comment 7

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

There is JSON Viewer (for JSON data) data or XML viewer (for XML), but I don't know about a generic "binary viewer"

In this bug we can just show an response as base64 encoded data.

Noe that there is a bug 1555641 related to implementing binary viewer in the Response panel.

Honza