296621 - Tools - DOM Inspector doesn't inspect the current page anymore, Ctrl+Shift+I works

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 297307

(Other Applications :: DOM Inspector, defect)

Description

[philippe (part-time)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050604 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050604 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

since the landing of bug 295711, it is impossible to inspect the content of a
window (like a html document loaded in the front most window/tab). The URL of
the page doesn't appear in the file menu > Inspect a Window.
Opening the DomI through the keyboard short cut previously opened the DomI with
the html page in the front most window/tab. No longer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load DomI (from menu or keyboard shortcut)
2. File menu > Inspect a window
3.

Actual Results:  
only chrome is accessible, not an html document.

Expected Results:  
1. if opened via the keyboard shortcut, open the DomI with the html doc from the
front most window/tab to inspect.
2. make that same url (html doc) available form the file menu.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

I'm not sure if it is intended or not that you have to c&p the url into the DomI
locationbar ?

->NEW

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

WFM on windows, maybe mac-only?

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

Using this build
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050604
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060416

After launching Firefox, and loading an HTML doc, launching the DomI with the
keyboard shortcut displayed the document tree for the html doc (as expected).

However, after using Firefox for a while, using multiple tabs, normal browsing
session, and then attempting to inspect a window with the DomI (using the
keyboard shortcut) stopped working, the DomI simply opened a blank window.

In any case, the URL (in the frontmost window/tab) was not available for
inspection form the menu: file > Inspect a window. It used to be accessible from
there, I'm not sure however when that behaviour changed, as I rarely use this.

Comment 4

[Nobu Nari]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050608 Firefox/1.0+

Recent Pacifica-trunk also shows just blank in the DOMInspector window on Win98SE.
This bug may affect not only Mac but also old Windows.

Comment 5

[Jochen]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050608
Firefox/1.0+

CTRL+SHIFT+I : works for me
(inspecting the inspector : document.defaultView.arguments[0] == "[object
XPCNativeWrapper [object HTMLDocument]]")

Tools -> DOM Inspector : fails
(inspecting the inspector : document.defaultView.arguments is empty)

Comment 6

[Steffen Wilberg]

The menu item used to call the InspectPage command:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/browser/extensions/inspector/content/tasksOverlay.xul&rev=&cvsroot=/cvsroot&mark=42#40
The keyboard shortcut still does this.

The menu item now calls the Inspector command:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/extensions/inspector/resources/content/tasksOverlay-ff.xul&mark=40#38

Comment 7

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 297307 ***