1667718 - WebExtension's debug view (Inspect, Console) shows messages from all WebExtensions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1006102

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Description

[voltron]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
2. Click "Inspect" of WebExtension XYZ
3. Select "Console" tab

Actual results:

Console tab shows e.g. JavaScript error messages of ALL WebExtensions. Not just the WebExtension that was selected. This makes debugging and troubleshooting with end-users a real pain.

Expected results:

Console tab shows messages that are only related to the selected WebExtension.

Comment 1

[Luca Greco [:rpl] [:luca] [:lgreco]]

needinfo myself to double-check if we do have already a duplicate of this issue.

Comment 2

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

I’ve managed to reproduce the issue on the latest Nightly (83.0a1/20200929213959), Beta (82.0b5/20200929175845) and Release (81.0/20200917005511) under Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

To be more specific, I’ve installed Facebook Container and accessed it’s console from about:debugging. Afterwards I’ve installed uBlock Origin and checked the Facebook Container console again. Indeed, an error message from uBlock Origin is present in the Facebook Container console.

For more details, see the attached screenshot.

Comment 3

[Alex Cornestean]

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