1437939 - Unable to inspect extension console tab

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(WebExtensions :: Developer Tools, defect)

Description

[Andrea Giammarchi]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2018-02-13 at 16.47.03.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/604.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0.3 Safari/604.5.6

Steps to reproduce:

I've tried with a right click to inspect an inspector extension tab/panel or use the arrow to inspect an element within the inspector.


Actual results:

Even launching the extension in debugging mode, there is no way to inspect DOM contained within the extension panel itself (e.g. Adblock Plus)


Expected results:

In Chrome debugger, as example, it is possible to debug an extension panel just like any other DOM content in the page.

Comment 1

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

You need to use the extension debugger in about:debigging to inspect an extension popup.

Comment 2

[Andrea Giammarchi]

if you are talking about the external debugger it's in the attached image too.

It is still not possible to inspect the DOM inside the extension tab. No right click, no mouse inspector on that DOM.

Please double check the attached image and let me know if something is not clear or if I am not understanding what extension debugger in about:debugging you are talking about.

Thanks

Comment 3

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

(In reply to Andrea Giammarchi from comment #2)
> if you are talking about the external debugger it's in the attached image
> too.
> 
> It is still not possible to inspect the DOM inside the extension tab. No
> right click, no mouse inspector on that DOM.
> 
> Please double check the attached image and let me know if something is not
> clear or if I am not understanding what extension debugger in
> about:debugging you are talking about.
> 
> Thanks

Looks like your arrow is pointing at the page's toolbox?  You should be able to use Browser Toolbox's inspector to reach this content.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolbox

Comment 4

[Andrea Giammarchi]

Yes, that was my issue indeed. I should've looked for a solution harder, thanks for coming back.

You can close this, I can inspect any toolbox now.

Best Regards

Comment 5

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

(In reply to Andrea Giammarchi from comment #4)
> Yes, that was my issue indeed. I should've looked for a solution harder,
> thanks for coming back.

Well, it's actually quite confusing to have so many toolboxes...  We hope to make it better and less confusing in the future.

> You can close this, I can inspect any toolbox now.

Glad to hear it!