1787409 - Allow opening DevTools for an add-on when installing it remotely

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

This is to support the following request from webext cli tool:
https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/issues/759

The idea is to show the DevTools for the add-on when running:

$ webext run --devtools

This will install the add-on and show the devtools for that add-on right away,
so that you don't have to go through about:debugging for this.

Comment 1

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

Attachment: Bug 1787409 - [devtools] Allow to open DevTools when installing an add-on remotely.

Comment 2

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

This patch works alongside https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/pull/2488.

Comment 3

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

Attachment: Bug 1787409 - [devtools] Resolve toolbox's opening only once the meatball menu is updated.

_buildTabs/_setInitialMeatballState wasn't awaited for.
So that preference front request might be pending when closing the toolbox too quickly in tests.

We should wait for all RDP requests to be completed before resolving Toolbox.open.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9285c88795e1
[devtools] Resolve toolbox's opening only once the meatball menu is updated. r=nchevobbe
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/8eab39068a3c
[devtools] Allow to open DevTools when installing an add-on remotely. r=nchevobbe,devtools-backward-compat-reviewers

Comment 5

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9285c88795e1
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8eab39068a3c