1440633 - Please add a probability switch for connections to randomly fail or drop to the low bandwidth simulator in the responsive design mode tester

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Responsive Design Mode, enhancement, P3)

Description

[u580221]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180223001838

Steps to reproduce:

Please add a probability switch for connections to randomly fail or drop to the low bandwidth simulator in the responsive design mode tester. Since in practice, having a slow mobile connection often also means it is super unreliable, simply increasing latency and decreasing bandwidth is not enough to test whether a JS app successfully handles a shaky, unreliable mobile connection and the associated need for good error recovery.


Actual results:

No obvious way to have a probability for connections to fail or to drop when already established. Only latency and bandwidth are mentioned


Expected results:

There is a way to specify a probability for a connection to fail to establish, or to get dropped in the middle once established

Comment 1

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

Thanks for filing!  Seems like an interesting future enhancement idea.