842942 - (smdevtools) Integrate Firefox DevTools into SeaMonkey

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Iacopo Benesperi [:iacchi]]

Hi. I'm quite sure a bug like this should exist already, but I couldn't find it.

I believe a considerable part of Seamonkey users are developers, and we're not doing much for them. So I was thinking... why don't we integrate the new Firefox developers tools into Seamonkey, too? I've been using them for a while and they're great. Since Firebug is not compatible with Seamonkey anymore, I believe it would be a great help for developers. Is there any technical reason why we can't integrate them?

Comment 1

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

A lot of code lives in browser/ and relies on browser UI and components. Things have improved with some of the recent changes we've been doing. Nonetheless, there's still a lot of work to make the entire set of devtools to work with Seamonkey.

It might be easier to start off with one tool at a time. For example the Web Console and the JS Debugger have a lot of code in toolkit, and the UI is fairly self-contained.

In the Web Console's case HUDService.jsm is the Firefox UI glue-layer. If you replace HUDService with a Seamonkey-specific implementation and other small bits, one should be able to get the Web Console working with Seamonkey. The webconsole.xul and webconsole.js files should be much safer - albeit they are not 100% "clean". There's also bug 768103.

For the debugger the story might be similar, but I do not know the UI code very well.

Comment 2

[Iacopo Benesperi [:iacchi]]

After almost a year, are there any news on the feasibility of this implementation?

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

Edmund was looking into this in Bug 574955 (Make webconsole work in SeaMonkey) but it was a moving target and back then a lot of code was hard coded for firefox. Bug 768103 should certainly help matters.

Comment 5

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Note that Firebug (inofficially) allows to be installed on SeaMonkey until now and people are obviously using it[1]. As the upcoming Firebug 3 will be based on the DevTools, there won't be any support for it anymore as long as the DevTools are not included in SeaMonkey.

Sebastian

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/firebug/9nWmTvZv6lw/d_pkNjo1QBgJ

Comment 6

[fieldhouse]

In SeaMonkey 2.53.5.1 final, we have the following non-functional items:

• Tools>Web Development>Responsive Design View;
• in the Toolbox Settings panel, Ctrl+Shift+M is advertised for "Responsive Design Mode", but has no effect, regardless of setting;
• Tools>Web Development>Developer Toolbar (Shift+F2);
• Tools>Web Development>Eyedropper - see bug 1292045: however, the eyedropper tool on the header of the Toolbox Inspector panel works.