872826 - Calling listTabs twice makes webconsole tests fail

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P3)

Description

[Anton Kovalyov (:anton)]

This is a bit of a mystery. While working on bug 817836 I discovered that if you call listTabs twice (once on toolbox-ready and once from within the makeRemote for example) then the following webconsole tests fail with some weird errors like 'value was not discarded':

[X] browser_bug_869003_inspect_cross_domain_object.js
[X] browser_webconsole_bug_600183_charset.js
[X] browser_webconsole_bug_630733_response_redirect_headers.js
[X] browser_webconsole_netlogging.js

I worked around this issue in the aforementioned bug but the whole thing still seems to be very fragile.

Comment 1

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Did you investigate to see why they actually break?

They all seem to relate to network logging (in the console actor), or tab navigation (in the tab actor).

Comment 2

[Anton Kovalyov (:anton)]

I attempted (and so did dcamp if I recall correctly) but when I discovered the workaround I decided to focus on finishing my console.profile bug instead.

So far it seems like one of the listTabs calls somehow sets all those properties such as discardProperty but I couldn't find where it happens in the code.

Sorry for not being too helpful.

Comment 3

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

test-related.

Comment 4

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

No activity in the past 4 years. Closing now.