1211640 - provide dom inspector for extension popup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 950936

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[nico.schloemer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.101 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I would like to debug the DOM of an extension popup window. When right-clicking the window, however, I don't see the possibility to inspect the DOM. I don't see that possibility anywhere else either.

Comment 1

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Are you able to use the Browser Toolbox[1] for this?  It can target specific documents[2].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolbox
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolbox#Targeting_a_document

Comment 2

[nico.schloemer]

Thanks Ryan for the suggestion.

I've tried it all out and couldn't get it to work. Whatever I click from the Browser Toolbox will immediately close the extension popup, so I can never inspect it.

I searched a further around the bug tracker and found https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950936 closely related. So closely in fact that I think we can call it a duplicate.