1633507 - Make it easier for devs to tell Fennec/GeckoView/Fenix builds apart

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: about:debugging, enhancement, P3)

Description

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

Mobile engineers switch between Fennec, GeckoView-example from a local build, GeckoView-example from task cluster, local debug Fenix, Firefox Preview Nightly for Developers

Names overlap between them in about:debugging; but they should succinctly reflect the different apps (which we can further define in this bug).

Comment 1

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Here's one way to get into a confusing state:

1. Build Fenix with Android Studio in the geckoNightlyDebug configuration, and install and run it on the device.
2. Build GeckoView-example and install and run it on the device, with mach run.

Both builds show up in the about:debugging sidebar as "Firefox Custom" and cannot be differentiated.
Once connected, the Fenix build keeps saying "Firefox Custom", but the GeckoView-example connection name changes to "Mozilla Fennec".

Comment 2

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Attachment: screenshot before connecting

Comment 3

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Attachment: screenshot after connecting