1165138 - implement Firebug's monitorEvents / unMonitorEvents

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Console, enhancement, P3)

Description

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

See https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/MonitorEvents

This is actually pretty cool stuff, see Brian's blog post about the chrome version:

http://www.briangrinstead.com/blog/chrome-developer-tools-monitorevents

Comment 1

[forkest]

Duplicate of bug 1164883 that was reported on the same day

Comment 3

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Thanks for noting! I've marked the other one as duplicate, because this one has better meta data.

Sebastian

Comment 5

[Andreas Tolfsen ❲:ato❳]

Copying some relevant information from duplicate bug 1302458:

Blink implements a series of JS monitoring functions in their devtools API available from the JS console.  Amongst them are monitorEvents() and unmonitorEvents() that logs to console whenever the object receives an event from the passed events array, or all events by default.

The relevant documentation here is:

    https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/debug/command-line/events

monitorEvents(object [, events]): https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/debug/command-line/command-line-reference#monitoreventsobject-events

unmonitorEvents(object [, events]): https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/debug/command-line/command-line-reference#unmonitoreventsobject-events

Comment 6

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Note that this was mentioned again for the Chrome 71 release.[1]

For what it's worth, Firebug provided some more groups than the Chrome DevTools. As its wiki page is not available anymore, you have to check the web archive[2], or you check the related code[3].

Sebastian

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/10/devtools
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20171026072256/https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/MonitorEvents
[3] https://github.com/firebug/firebug/blob/f8cf7e9c918dcf67c58f5affc0fb3716b0660232/extension/content/firebug/lib/events.js#L278-L381

Comment 7

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Seems like something that could help webcompat team maybe?
Harald, what do you think of this?

Comment 8

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

Aligns well with our log point ideas; we might pick this up next year in some shape and re-prioritize.