859759 - [browserconsole] Increase number of items stored for errors/warnings/messages to be comparable to the Error Console

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

Description

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

Open the Error Console, check the number of entries. Then compare with the Browser Console.

There are fewer messages in the Browser Console. They should be the same

Comment 1

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

on second glance, many of the CSS errors and warnings I was seeing are repeated values so we might not be as far off as I initially thought. We should still verify that we're capturing "the right number" of messages.

Comment 2

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

The Web Console default log limit per message type is 200 messages (network, css, script, console API message). This limit can be changed with prefs: devtools.hud.loglimit.{network,cssparser,exception,console}.

The Error Console limits the output to 250 messages (of any kind), hard coded value.

Do we want to make any changes for the Browser Console?

Comment 3

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

I recall looking at the Error Console's limits when we chose those numbers for the Web Console. Maybe they're good enough. On the other hand, I've been bothered before by missed messages in the Error Console because they'd been culled.

Do things get slow with numbers of 1000?