1307860 - aboutdebugging: select a debug tool from about:debugging#tabs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: about:debugging, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Attachment: about-debugging-tabs-tool-select.png

As a follow up to Bug 1297758, it could be nice if about:debugging#tabs allowed to directly open the inspector (and when ready, console etc...) targeting a given tab-id. 

The idea is to add a select box to pick a specific tool in the about:debugging#tabs UI.

Since this is mostly intended for development, this feature could sit behind a pref defaulting to true only in Nightly.

(try push with a quick implementation: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=a32c31f15972f401310077a48f06b7f0962917a2)

Comment 1

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Alex, what do you think about this?

Comment 2

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

It would be helpful if that ends up being a common workflow. We could potentialy have that for more than just tabs.
It could be also helpful to spawn the urls for the root actor:
  about:devtools-toolbox?type=process > sort of equivalent of Browser toolbox with a potentialy breakful debugger
  chrome://devtools/content/inspector/inspector.xhtml?type=process > equivalent of the browser toolbox one

Also I don't know if I will have time to actually do it, but I would like to load everything via query parameters. The toolboxes and tools. So that you would just have to right click and click on "This frame > Show only this frame".

What about creating a specific pref and set if from the addon?
I'm just unsure if that's great behavior for all nightly users.

Comment 3

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

about:debugging triage, filter on OBSOLETE HANDHELD

Comment 4

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

This was about the old about:debugging, can be closed