879603 - Firefox 22beta+ is missing DevTools features

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Luke]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130512193848

Steps to reproduce:

I right clicked, inspected element in Firefox 22 beta (I also tried Firefox 24), right clicked a rule in the CSS inspector to the right.

I also went to the debugger tab, and noticed the stack display is missing. In 21, stack display is to the left, but in 22 that is the script selector, and it's not obvious if/where the stack display is available.


Actual results:

Instead of showing the basic copy menu from 21, Firefox 22 shows no menu at all in the rules pane. I have been annoyed by the lack of right click, open css url() in new tab, and lack of other basic features, so I wrote an addon to add to this menu, unfortunately it seems the menu doesn't exist on 22+ yet.


Expected results:

There should be at least as many features in 22+ as there are in Firefox 21.

Comment 1

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

(In reply to Luke from comment #0)
> I also went to the debugger tab, and noticed the stack display is missing.
> In 21, stack display is to the left, but in 22 that is the script selector,
> and it's not obvious if/where the stack display is available.

The stack frames are now displayed in a breadcrumb-like display on top of the editor, in the debugger toolbar. The order is similar to the order of calls in source code, for example "a(b(c()))" will appear as "a > b > c".

Right clicking on the breadcrumbs will display the stack frames in a popup that you may be more familiar with.

I also know that there is bug 875727 for getting a global context menu that will fix your other issue, but Mike will know more about it.

Comment 2

[Luke]

Thanks for the explanation, but that bug you linked to seems like a work-in-progress, it doesn't say if it will be available in 22? It would seem to be a serious regression if they removed the right click, copy rule from Firefox inspector.

Comment 3

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

I suspect this bug can be closed as we're now way past Firefox 50+. The Developer tools are indeed present when you inspect an element. Please reopen if this happens again, and sorry for the lack of activity on the bug! We'll try to do better next time.