1694977 - Browser console not showing data after system variable is set.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1693854

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

Description

[Pablo]

Description
We were testing on beta and noticed that browser console is completely blank when
we set system variable. "export XPCSHELL_TEST_PROFILE_DIR=foo"
This affects beta only, on release and nightly it works, but we are not supposed to use that variable on nightly, only on beta and release, reason why im opening this bug.

Tested on
Win10 64bit, MacOS 10.15, Ubuntu20 64bit.

Tested on
Release 86 not reproducible
Beta 87.0b2 REPRODUCIBLE
Nightly 88.0a1 not reproducible

Steps
-Set system variable/environment variable on windows "XPCSHELL_TEST_PROFILE_DIR=foo"
On MacOS and Ubuntu you have to put "export XPCSHELL_TEST_PROFILE_DIR=foo" in terminal before running firefox with "./firefox -p"
-Launch firefox with a new profile.
-Hit control shift J

Actual result
Browser console is blank

expected result
Browser console should show up data.

Comment 1

[Pablo]

might be an S4, not sure who uses that variable.

Comment 2

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Could it be because of Bug 1693854 ? the uplift to beta was requested so hopefully this will be fixed soon

Comment 3

[Pablo]

Hi nicolas,
yea its fixed now, i just tried with WIndows10, macos 10.15 and ubuntu 20 using Firefox beta 87.0b5
and browser console has info now

thanks!

Comment 4

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

great, I'm going to close this as a duplicate then.
Thanks!