1623364 - Firefox: allow copy "Response Payload"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1403203

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, defect)

Description

[nate.vaughan]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2020-03-18 at 10.32.00 AM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

Steps to reproduce:

I'm a developer working on a web application that makes XHR requests.

When my application makes requests and receives responses, I would like to be able to copy the "Response payload" the network tab of the developer console.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Mac OSX 10.15.3, FF 74.0
2. Load a web application that makes XHR requests
3. Open developer console
4. Open network tab
5. Click on XHR request
6. Scroll down to "Response Payload"
7. Try to select the text within the "Response Payload" box. In fact try any way you can to copy or download the response payload. You just want to be able to save the payload! It's right there, you can see it!
8. Plead with Firefox to let you copy the Response Payload
9. Firefox immediately cancels/unselects the text you're attempting to select

Actual results:

Firefox immediately cancels the text selection. So command-c copies nothing.

Now try right clicking and choose the "Copy" option. Firefox copies JSON that includes a lot of metadata and the escaped response payload. But this isn't useful, unless you want to take the time to unescape the response payload and remove all the metadata. You just wanted to copy the response payload! Please, for the love of all that is holy, Firefox, please let me copy or save the raw response payload!

Expected results:

Firefox should let YOU select the response JSON so that traditional copy commands work (e.g. command-c).

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

Thanks for the detailed report nate. This is fixed in Nightly, maybe you can confirm.