883238 - Preserve selected source between program executions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: Debugger, defect, P3)

Description

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

It's kind of annoying that all of the breakpoints or selected source state is lost between debug sessions. By sessions I mean from opening to devtools window to closing it, so if open devtools window, set breakpoints, close devtools window and then open it again my breakpoints are lost & my selected source file is no longer selected.

Comment 1

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

See bug 867838. While that does not try to solve state saving across toolbar closings. But you can minimize the toolbox which will still have the same state.

Comment 2

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Bug 882341 is about preserving breakpoints, but remembering the selected source sounds like a good idea, too.

Comment 3

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

This has been lying around in P3 land for a while but I think is both surprising and puts us in a bad light when we're compared to chrome. Can you re-triage this? Happy to attend the Minotaur meeting and chat about it.

Comment 4

[Eddy Bruel [:ejpbruel]]

Since bug 882341 is already about preserving breakpoint state, I think it makes sense to limit the scope of this bug to preserving the selected source only. Either that, or we could merge these into a single bug.

Comment 5

[Jason Laster [:jlast]]

The new debugger now supports this.