1650048 - vmware remote console cant be opend since 78.0.1 update

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[johann.maltan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to open vmware remote console via vshere web client.

Actual results:

A blank sheet popped up as always before, but vmware remote conole does not start.

Expected results:

vmware remote console should come up, as it does prior to 78.0.1 update

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Doesn't look like a security bug.

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:
Apparent regression in 78.

Reporter: is there a test instance somewhere that reproduces the problem? Have you tried a clean Firefox profile ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles ) just to check if it's related to any particular settings that would help reproducing? Are there any errors in the developer tools console when the console doesn't start?

Comment 2

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

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

Comment 3

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

not a DevTools webconsole bug

Comment 4

[Jeronimo Torti (Please send NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi,
I don't have the technical knowledge to confirm this issue but I'll add product and component so the team can make some research on it. Hopefully, someone with a more deep understanding of this matter can help. Feel free to route this ticket to the corresponding team.

Thanks.

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Jerónimo Torti from comment #4)

I don't have the technical knowledge to confirm this issue but I'll add product and component so the team can make some research on it.

Please don't clear needinfo requests for the reporter... and this bug does not have anything to do with Firefox's internal "remote settings" component. I'm reinstating the needinfo for the reporter, for the questions I left in my earlier comment:

Reporter: is there a test instance somewhere that reproduces the problem? Have you tried a clean Firefox profile ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles ) just to check if it's related to any particular settings that would help reproducing? Are there any errors in the developer tools console when the console doesn't start?

Comment 6

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau] (back August 18)]

Johann, can you try 78.0.2 and let us know if vmware remote console works there?