1075104 - remote debugger doesn't update the code when debugging an extension

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(DevTools :: Debugger, defect)

Description

[gal007]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I am remotely debugging my Firefox-for-Android extension, but everytime I change my code I have to install it in the mobile browser and then close and open it. If I don't close the browser, the changes are displayed, but the source code I debug is not updated. 

E.g. I did some changes: I aded a new message. When I install it, the extension displays the new message, but the desktop-remote debugger doesn't see that new line of code. I closed the connection and opened a new one and still the same results. I closed the desktop browser and open again, connected the debugger and the same result. 


Actual results:

The only thing that reaload the source code displayed in debugger is closing and opening the mobile browser, once the extension is installed.


Expected results:

The code should be reloaded after extension installation.

Comment 1

[:Margaret Leibovic]

Mossop, is this a bug with add-on debugging?

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I would guess so yes. Probably somewhere in the debugger server we assume that a URL only ever points to one script.

Comment 3

[Eddy Bruel [:ejpbruel]]

(In reply to Dave Townsend [:mossop] from comment #2)
> I would guess so yes. Probably somewhere in the debugger server we assume
> that a URL only ever points to one script.

This may be a duplicate of bug 893696. My suspicion is that we cache the sources too agressively (we do some magic with caching in the debugger server to make source maps work correctly, and we use the same code to fetch sources).

Leaving this bug open for now because it's not certain if this has the same underlying cause or not.

Comment 4

[Kuba Niewiarowski]

Or duplicate of bug 1065952...

Comment 5

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

@Stefan, can you please confirm this bug?

Honza

Comment 6

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

I am not the right person to verify this bug. Can this be picked up by the dev tools team? It may also be interesting to find out how this works on Firefox Preview (Fenix).

Comment 7

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

Many similar bugs have been fixed over time and this might already be fixed.

@gal007: any chance you could test this again and perhaps provide detailed STRs that could help us to reproduce this issue on our machines?

Thanks,
Honza

Comment 8

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

Ah, gal007 doesn't seem to be active anymore.
I am closing this one, but feel free to file a new bug if you still see the problem.

Honza