1448541 - HTML inspector becomes empty and unusable after download

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1347761

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[xracoonx]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180315233128

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the html inspector.
2. Go to a page that initiates a download, like http://download.cnet.com/CCleaner/3001-18512_4-10315544.html.


Actual results:

After the download window pops up, the inspector becomes empty and nothing on the page can be inspected anymore.


Expected results:

The inspector doesn't change or at least one can still inspect elements on the page.

Comment 1

[xracoonx]

Note that when sending a download to an iframe instead of a new tab the inspector works fine.

Comment 2

[xracoonx]

(In reply to xracoonx from comment #1)
> Note that when sending a download to an iframe instead of a new tab the
> inspector works fine.

Sorry, I meant: When sending a download to an iframe or a new tab, the works fine. More details:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49463421/how-to-download-a-php-file-generated-via-post-while-avoiding-that-the-page-locat?noredirect=1#comment85929846_49463421

Comment 3

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

Thanks for filing. I think this is a duplicate of bug 1393455. Feel free to re-open if not.