1527059 - Start Marionette in Fennec when remote debugging is enabled

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Testing, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

In Bug 1524673, which I'm about to land, we make Marionette part of Remote Debugging. This mirrors Chrome/Chrome WebView and chromedriver: Remote Debugging (over CDP) is how you enable automation.

Fennec doesn't use GeckoView's setRemoteDebuggingEnabled, so that ticket doesn't actually wire Marionette into Fennec. This ticket tracks that.

Historically we haven't enabled Marionette in Fennec, for reasons I don't fully understand: something about the security of the Marionette protocol never having been vetted in the way that the Remote Debugging Protocol has been vetted?

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

whimboo: can you connect this into the network of existing Fennec/Marionette tickets?

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

I am not intending to address this ticket unless there's a new and compelling reason to do so. I think our existing prefs-based system and test runners are probably sufficient.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Sorry, but I actually don't get what this ticket is about in detail. What is the goal of this bug?

Comment 4

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

(In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him] from comment #0)

Historically we haven't enabled Marionette in Fennec, for reasons I don't fully understand: something about the security of the Marionette protocol never having been vetted in the way that the Remote Debugging Protocol has been vetted?

Bug 1484220?

Comment 5

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