2004657 - Opening the dev toolbox opens a felt authentication window

Status: NEW

(Firefox Enterprise :: Client, defect)

Comment 1

[Janika Neuberger [:janika]]

When you open the Developer Toolbox, the felt authentication window is opened as well. If one of the two windows is closed, the other gets closed as well.

Comment 2

[:gerard-majax]

It's an expected regression from making FELT shown by default. It's easy to hack the Subprocess.call:

diff --git a/devtools/client/framework/browser-toolbox/Launcher.sys.mjs b/devtools/client/framework/browser-toolbox/Launcher.sys.mjs
index 1168772a4152..2b76dd362670 100644
--- a/devtools/client/framework/browser-toolbox/Launcher.sys.mjs
+++ b/devtools/client/framework/browser-toolbox/Launcher.sys.mjs
@@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ export class BrowserToolboxLauncher extends EventEmitter {
       XPCOM_MEM_REFCNT_LOG: null,
       XRE_PROFILE_PATH: null,
       XRE_PROFILE_LOCAL_PATH: null,
+
+      MOZ_AUTOMATION: "1",
+      MOZ_BYPASS_FELT: "1",
     };

     // During local development, incremental builds can trigger the main process

But we may want to do something different