1349109 - Add about:debugging as a Devtools panel or menu

Status: NEW

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

Description

[YF (Yang)]

Open the panel to debugging is difficult at present, it have to open the Add-ons Manager - Tools menu - click menu, or open the URL (bookmarked).

It should be a Developer menu (like once WebIDE) or a Devtools panel (e.g. for 'Reload' at any time).


Aside, the interface currently does not have a Remove button for add-on.

Comment 1

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

(In reply to YF (Yang) from comment #0)
> Open the panel to debugging is difficult at present, it have to open the
> Add-ons Manager - Tools menu - click menu, or open the URL (bookmarked).
> 
> It should be a Developer menu (like once WebIDE) 

There is also a menu entry for about:debugging#workers which is accessible from menu > Developer > Service Workers.
We never strongly communicated about "about:debugging" as a product, so I'm not sure if having a general "about:debugging" or "debugging" menu entry would work. Maybe a sub-menu named "debugging..." containing one menu item for each target;
- debugging... > addons
- debugging... > remote devices (for the connect screen when ready)
- debugging... > tabs
- debugging... > workers

> or a Devtools panel (e.g. for 'Reload' at any time).
> 

We are considering moving some parts of about:debugging to a panel (for instance, the service workers list could be in a panel, filtered for the domain of the content page. What do you mean by "Reload at any time?", can you elaborate?

> Aside, the interface currently does not have a Remove button for add-on.

This is tracked by another bug: Bug 1338827