1226637 - [inspector panel] Allow to disable or remove events

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1492497

(DevTools :: Inspector, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Florent Fayolle]

Attachment: Firebug "Events" panel

Firebug 2.0 allows to disable events in its "Events" panel (see screenshot).

A user of Firebug 3.0 misses the feature here, and probably others will:
https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/issues/394

Florent

Comment 1

[usermirss]

Please also consider adding it in the side panel, in a tab named Events for the ease of use, as it was on FB 2.0, as requested here
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226640

Comment 2

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

Triaging (filter on CLIMBING SHOES).

Comment 3

[Botond Ballo [:botond]]

As a point of comparison, Chromium has a "Remove" button next to its list of listeners.

:smaug mentioned on IRC that permanently removing a listener can be implemented in devtools without platform changes (while temporarily disabling a listener would likely require platform changes). I'd be happy with just being able to permanently disable them as an initial feature (you can reload the page to get it back if necessary).

Comment 6

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

Disable and remove are both completely possible so we should add both buttons.

Comment 8

[Botond Ballo [:botond]]

Copying over a relevant comment from bug 1449233 by :bgrins:

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That would be pretty nice! A few thoughts:

1) I think it'd need some UX work as far as how to show disabled event listeners in the inspector / debugger.
2) There's event listener breakpoint work planned at https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html/issues/4750 / https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DXzoa7cUZJ_z41_QK1I1nPtyexkgGxup7C_at1SCcQs/edit. It's not the same usecase but maybe we could re-use some of the UI concepts for listing and managing listeners.
3) Would be interesting if it could be extended to any EventTarget when we allow event inspection in the console.
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