1371549 - Correct info about new debugger UI

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Developer Tools, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

The new debugger frontend is not activated by default yet, though the documentation claims that it changed in Firefox 52. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger and its subpages.

This info needs to be corrected to say that the new UI is currently only activated by default in Firefox Nightly.

Sebastian

Comment 1

[Irene Smith]

I understand that the value was not turned on by default in Firefox 52, but I can't seem to pin down when it became the default. The other option is to simply remove the comment altogether since it seems to have been turned on in 62, 63, and 64.

I've searched through the release notes, but I can't find when this was actually changed.

Comment 2

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

As of bug 1294139, the new frontend obviously got enabled by default in Firefox 56. I've confirmed that by downloading and comparing versions 55 and 56 from ftp.mozilla.org.

At the moment, the old UI is still available by setting the preference devtools.debugger.new-debugger-frontend to false, though it is currently worked on to be removed in bug 1314057. So I think the best would be to just remove the pages and the hint, but there's also the option to archive the pages at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive

Will, what you do think should be done here?

Sebastian

Comment 3

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

> Will, what you do think should be done here?

Personally I think the old pages should be deleted: I don't see any value in keeping them in the archive. But I think it's the devtools team's decision on whether they want to keep the old debugger docs around for some reason.

Comment 4

[Irene Smith]

I have removed the note altogether. If the old UI is going to be unavailable in the near future, and the new UI has been around since Firefox 56, there is no good reason to tell people about it now.

I removed this note:

This page describes the JavaScript Debugger as it appears in Firefox 52 and above, in Firefox Nightly and Firefox Developer Edition.

To see what it's like in earlier versions of Firefox or in Firefox Beta and Release, see Debugger (before Firefox 52).

If you are getting this version of the Debugger and need to switch back to the old version, you can do so by visiting about:config and setting the "devtools.debugger.new-debugger-frontend" preference to false.

Comment 5

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

(In reply to Irene Smith from comment #4)
> I have removed the note altogether. If the old UI is going to be unavailable
> in the near future, and the new UI has been around since Firefox 56, there
> is no good reason to tell people about it now.

Thanks! I agree with you, so I've further removed the note from all the subpages linked to from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger.

(In reply to Will Bamberg [:wbamberg] from comment #3)
> > Will, what you do think should be done here?
> 
> Personally I think the old pages should be deleted: I don't see any value in
> keeping them in the archive. But I think it's the devtools team's decision
> on whether they want to keep the old debugger docs around for some reason.

Depending on what the DevTools team says, I'll create another bug report to remove or archive the old pages.

Sebastian

Comment 6

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

> But I think it's the devtools team's decision on whether they want to keep the old debugger docs around for some reason.

64 removes the old debugger for good, so the docs can be removed now.