1955811 - Browser Toolbox ignores user.js / about:config settings

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(DevTools :: Debugger, defect)

Description

[[:jaborandi]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Steps to reproduce:

made scrollbars usable with user.js:

user_pref("widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled", false);
user_pref("widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override", 30);
user_pref("widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.allow-buttons", true);

user_pref("ui.scrollToClick", 0);

Actual results:

it worked perfectly for the regular browser window, including Debugger, Console and Inspector and other modules of its DevTools

but it does not affect those of the Browser Toolbox (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I) at all

Expected results:

it should be applied to both

the reason for those settings is because the default is unusable for many
the browser toolbox needs to be usable too

there's no reason not to do that? it's not like you need Browser Toolbox to be in untouched default state for the case you somehow make the regular browser unusable with your settings? (even if that is possible, you can restore it to working state by reverting / renaming user.js / deleting prefs.js etc.)

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'DevTools::Debugger' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

FWIW, By creating another user.js file in the chrome_debugger_profile folder in the user profile folder, its contents will be reflected in DevTools.

Comment 3

[[:jaborandi]]

Alice0775 White, thank you, this is amazing - i just created a symlink to ../user.js

i'm closing this one then