1004387 - browser console: allow to save to file, another person can load that file into their browser console and click on all the variable viewer links etc

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Console, enhancement)

Description

[noitidart]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140421221237

Steps to reproduce:

I made an addon and it has some bugs. So I have to keep asking people to run tests then paste. And lots of my stuff dumps variables objects etc so I can click on it and view with variable viewer.


Actual results:

As users copy pasted, i obviously could not see the variable viewer links expanded.


Expected results:

Feature request: Allow us to save browser console to file. It should be like a snapshot. And allow others to open this file into browser console, and they can click through all the variable viewer logs and see all the timings etc.

Comment 1

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

That'd be handy to have.  The main issue with the variables view links is that they are fetched from the server so rely on the current js context in the browser.  And the objects may not be serializable (i.e. 'window').  It'd be so much work to do this that I don't see us doing it - I'm not sure where we'd start.  Feel free to reopen if you have ideas about how this might work.

Bug 1243802 is opened to allow expansion of variables inline which might help with being able to copy/paste more data out but won't fully tackle the request here.