1425752 - Feature request: console facility in Firefox for Android

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Dave Royal]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171109183137

Steps to reproduce:

There is a legacy extension which provided a console:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/console/

I used it quite a lot to diagnose problems with websites - script errors, or addon debug messages for example. Now there’s only remote debugging which isn’t always available at the time you have a problem.

Please build it into Firefox for Android, as it is for desktop.

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

The console output can also be redirected to the logcat by use of the "consoleservice.logcat" pref [1], so to kill two birds with one stone, this could also be done by finding some solution for the Logview addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/logview/), which suffers from the same problem of being blocked in Beta/Release now [2].

Having said that, the about:console interface implemented by that add-on offers of course slightly more console-specific functionality (e.g. filtering the different console message types, links to the corresponding source, ...) than a logcat viewer, so a case could be made for eventually having some dedicated console functionality as well.

[1] Enabled by default in Nightly, can be enabled from about:config on Beta/Release.
[2] If you've got a rooted device, this means that you can already view Firefox's logcat locally with the help of an appropriate logcat viewer app.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

A work around is to use the web console [1] via the remote debugging connection [2].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Remote_Debugging/Debugging_Firefox_for_Android_over_Wifi

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.