1400355 - Clicking a link in debugger scope chain will open it *in* the debugger UI frame

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1415300

(DevTools :: Debugger, defect, P2)

Description

[Ted Campbell [:tcampbell]]

Attachment: Screenshot of content in debugger

STR
  - Navigate to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi
  - Open debugger window
  - Click || to pause debugging
  - Click "Home" on bugzilla
    - This should fire a breakpoint
  - Look at scopes -> Block -> <this> : HTMLDocument -> URL
  - Click on the red URL link

Expected
  - Do nothing, or maybe view source, or maybe open in new tab?

Actual
  - Link loads replacing the debugger UI
  - Cannot navigate away from it

Comment 1

[Ted Campbell [:tcampbell]]

Also notice that the code is running in the debugger context. I'm logged in the content view, but not in the nested view.

Comment 2

[Jason Laster [:jlast]]

Thanks for reporting, this sounds realistic given that we are running the debugger in an HTML window. 

I was unable to reproduce it by clicking on the URLs it seemed like they were strings. I'm still looking for an <a> tag version
http://g.recordit.co/S45HHrPUp5.gif

Comment 3

[Ted Campbell [:tcampbell]]

Attachment: Screenshot of URL I clicked

Just to clarify, here is the before image

Comment 4

[Jason Laster [:jlast]]

This is now fixed in nightly, I will check in dev-edition soon. and if it's not there we can uplift.

Comment 5

[Ted Campbell [:tcampbell]]

The problem is still occurring in nightly. Same STR as above.

Comment 6

[Jason Laster [:jlast]]

Hmm, I'm running into an annoying timeout issue with that STR, did you hit this?


https://shipusercontent.com/8cc85925f68ac885662cb7850341488f/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-20%20at%205.32.48%20PM.png

Comment 7

[Ted Campbell [:tcampbell]]

I'm not hitting any timeout issue. Original STR still work. With a brief look at mozregression, I see that the issue was fixed in nightly [2017-09-22, 2017-09-28] where clicking the link would open in a new tab instead of the browser context. From sept 29th onwards, the debugger reverted to the old behaviour.

Comment 8

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Should be fixed with the next bundle update in Bug 1415300.

Comment 9

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Closing as duplicate of Bug 1415300. Now fixed on Nightly. However it is not opening the link in a new tab as it did briefly per comment 7. Nothing happens when clicking on a URL that looks like a link now.