1307990 - Inspect Closes When Browsing to Site from New Tab Page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1068400

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[u564464]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20160916101415

Steps to reproduce:

Open new tab (about:newtab or about:blank).
Right click, open Inspect Element.
Type a website into the address bar.


Actual results:

The Inspect bar closes.


Expected results:

Inspector should stay open, loading console and network info from the visited website. It stays open correctly when browsing for the Private Window page about:privatebrowsing

Comment 1

[Loic]

I can't reproduce it with FF49 on Win 7.

Is it reproducible with a clean profile?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 2

[u564464]

(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> I can't reproduce it with FF49 on Win 7.
> 
> Is it reproducible with a clean profile?
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-
> firefox-profiles

On Mac OS X, yes, I reproduced it with a clean profile. Can't reproduce on Linux or Windows.

Comment 3

[Loic]

Maybe it's a bug specific to the OSX version. Are you able to reproduce the issue in previous versions of Firefox?

Comment 4

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

AFAIK, the new tab page is loaded in the parent process with e10s, while web content is loaded in the content process.  At the moment we're not able to keep the toolbox open when switching processes like that.