966667 - WebRT apps lack developer tools

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Florian Bender]

Web Apps installed through the Firefox Marketplace (or through the API) lack any developer tools. Since the Firefox Developer Tools are remotable, it should be fairly straightforward to allow a Firefox instance to debug any WebRT app. This needs the WebRT apps to allow remote debugging by default (since there are no settings) – this shouldn't be of any concern, especially if the "allow remote connection" prompt shows in WebRT apps as well.

This issue came up here: https://github.com/artursapek/mondrian/issues/13#issuecomment-33862155

Comment 1

[Florian Bender]

(In reply to Florian Bender from comment #0)
> This needs the WebRT apps to allow remote debugging by default
> (since there are no settings)

Though you may want to add a simple toggle/checkbox menu[1] item that enables debug mode. And/or add a content-exposed (WebRT-only) API method that starts the remote protocol.


[1] Actually, I don't know if there is a menu on Windows at all … on Mac, there is, of course, and at least one of KDE/Gnome.

Comment 2

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

Bug 942756 should help here.

Comment 3

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

I believe this bug can be closed as the runtime has been removed since 2016: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/WebRT

Sorry about the lack of activity.