780085 - Inspect element does not work in web-panel.xul

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect, P3)

Description

[fx4waldi]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20120802040204

Steps to reproduce:

Open the page in the sidebar, right click, click Inspect Element (Q)
Nothing happens. Should be delete this item from the context menu of web-panels.xul or fix it.

Comment 1

[tsepin.huang]

Steps performed:
1. At Right Panel, Open Web Developer > Inspector
2. Right clicked an element of selection > Clicked "Inspect Element (Q)"

Result
Element is inspected - This should be close

Nightly Version : 37.0a1
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0(In reply to fx4waldi from comment #0)
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
> Build ID: 20120802040204
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> Open the page in the sidebar, right click, click Inspect Element (Q)
> Nothing happens. Should be delete this item from the context menu of
> web-panels.xul or fix it.

Comment 2

[mamo]

Attachment: inspect_Element.png

Comment 3

[mamo]

Steps performed:
1. From right click menu, opened inspect element

Result:
Developer tools opened with proper location of DOM tree element

Comment 4

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

I had never heard of "web-panels.xul" until I saw this bug...  but anyway, I suppose this is still valid.

One way to display something in web-panels.xul is to set a bookmark to "Load the bookmark in the sidebar" and open it.

As comment 0 says, "inspect element" does not actually do anything for the content inside the sidebar.

One way to handle this would be via the Browser Toolbox one it can switch frames (bug 1059308).

Comment 5

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

(In reply to J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] from comment #4)
> I had never heard of "web-panels.xul" until I saw this bug...  but anyway, I
> suppose this is still valid.
> 
> One way to display something in web-panels.xul is to set a bookmark to "Load
> the bookmark in the sidebar" and open it.
> 
> As comment 0 says, "inspect element" does not actually do anything for the
> content inside the sidebar.
> 
> One way to handle this would be via the Browser Toolbox one it can switch
> frames (bug 1059308).

We could also remove / disable the "Inspect Element" context item from the in-content menu.

Comment 7

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

I don't think web-panels.xul is available anymore, closing as INVALID, please add updated STRs if this should be reopened.