1383688 - Console clears when a link with the [download] attribute is clicked

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P3)

Description

[belst]

Attachment: ff2.webm

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Logging stuff with console.log and clicking programatically on an a tag with a download attribute.

See attached video of the problem.

Related Code which has the 2 logs after the click: https://hastebin.com/edonafated.ts


Actual results:

Download dialog opens and developer console clears (Browser console doesn't)


Expected results:

Developer console should not clear

Comment 1

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Hello belst, thank you for reporting.

I guess we follow the same pattern as when we don't have a `download` attribute, the page "navigates" and thus the logs are cleared.
As a workaround, you can check the "Enable persistent logs" in the settings panel (under the "Common Preferences" label).

Comment 2

[belst]

This seems a bit unintuitive. Since a download doesn't really "navigate" it should keep the logs imo.

Comment 3

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

(In reply to belst from comment #2)
> This seems a bit unintuitive. Since a download doesn't really "navigate" it
> should keep the logs imo.

Yes, you're totally right.
We should see if we can get the information in the packet that the "navigation" is in fact only a download (or add it if we don't).
Thanks for reporting again, it's useful for us :)

Comment 5

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

This isn't a console issue only, the netmonitor suffers from the same issue as well.
Let's move that on the devtools level and think of a solution.

That could be something to take into account while working on Bug 1632141.