442519 - Show signatures in about:crashes

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Dave Garrett]

I would like to request that a "signature" column be added to about:crashes.  As it stands right now, it's just a list of rather cryptic IDs and dates.  Loading the signatures of processed reports into this list would make sorting through it to find a specific crash much easier.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

This would be hard to do since signatures get generated on the server. The Breakpad ID appears before the signature even gets generated, which could be hours or days later. 

Comment 2

[Dave Garrett]

Yes, it would have to request them after you actually load up the about:crashes page.  You'd also need to cache these signatures somewhere so you only have to fetch them once for new ones.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

This is one of the things I thought would be possible with bug 412477 fixed.

Comment 4

[Dave Garrett]

I wrote an extension to do this.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11217

It's a new and a little rough around the edges, but it works. ;)

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Dave, can you provide a patch?

Comment 6

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Dave, can you provide a patch?

See bug 408721 comment 13. I need to switch to using the JSON report instead of XHTML and a few other things, but yes, it's something I could do this at some point.