1522585 - WebIDE doesn't show Chrome on Android

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, defect)

Description

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Working in an older Firefox version, but with the current Nightly nothing is shown.

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Whew, seems like quite an older version:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=4d54ac07b8c97f0e6713dab2ba694023b5b2f3b5&tochange=64f5e3f40f0e7accb12cd90080e58eff0be46383

Comment 2

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

I'm confused; WebIDE is not meant to show Chrome for Android?

I don't understand your second comment either or how it relates to the title of the bug. Could you please clarify?

Thanks!

Comment 3

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

It used to work, i.e. instead of connecting to Firefox on Android, you could also connect to Chrome on Android and inspect its tabs. This was useful, because very occasionally I needed to check how certain pages behaved in Chrome on Android, and WebIDE support meant I wouldn't actually have to install Chrome on my desktop as well. Comment 1 is the Nightly build where this stopped working.

Comment 4

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

Ah, I see what you mean. Thanks for clarifying!

I'm sorry but that functionality has been removed for the time being. That was done via Valence, but it has been removed since September 2017.

For more info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Valence and https://github.com/mozilla/valence/commit/4ae203e13ce9d35ce8df7ad59563117f19a22819

I'm closing as 'wontfix' because WebIDE is also going away, replaced with the new about:debugging page which will have a better interface and code than WebIDE. I think if you really want to debug using Firefox, you should use an earlier version that still supports Valence. Or, well, use Chrome to debug Chrome :-)

Hope that helps!