626422 - Investigate default preferences for number of entries in web console

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

Description

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

there is currently no preference for this setting (which is capped at 200). I would like this to be a user-settable preference.

Comment 1

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

requesting blocking so we can get this in next beta.

Comment 2

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

after some spelunking, I did indeed find an undocumented, hidden preference. Set

devtools.hud.loglimit to an integer in about:config to change the number of lines displayed in the console.

From the dev.apps.firefox discussion, it was also suggested that we could have a combination of prefs to greater tweak the behavior.

"Should we perhaps also have a minimum time?  Throw away > 200, but
none that are < 5 mins old, and none that are since the last reload of
this page?"

https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/90756aa791036c48#

Comment 3

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

killing blocking on this as the basic hidden pref I think satisfies the requirement for fx4.

Comment 4

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

We should open another bug if we need to investigate these numbers again.