debugger.html

This is a prototype debugger written without any XUL and based on React and Redux.

Getting Started

$ npm install
$ npm start

Start Firefox in remote debugging mode. The -P parameter specifies a profile to use:

$ /Applications/FirefoxNightly.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P development --start-debugger-server 6080

Set additional configuration options in Firefox using about:config:

• devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true
• devtools.chrome.enabled to true
• devtools.debugger.prompt-connection to false

Quit and re-open firefox with the same command. Then, open the debugger in another browser by visiting:

localhost:8000

Advanced 🙈

User Configuration

You can create an environment.json to set user environmental variables, like the firefox source path. Start by copying the environment.sample file and update the source code location. This is only necessary if you want to run tests.

• firefoxSrcDir: absolute path to local firefox source code
• firefoxObjDir: absolute path to a local build of firefox

NOTE: Firefox source code is available on github at gecko-dev. For a faster download add the depth option to your git clone git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev.git The MDN article Working with Mozilla source code has a number of other options.

Remote Debugging

If you'd like to connect an existing Firefox browser to debugger.html, you can press shift+F2 to open the developer toolbar and type listen 6080 into the developer toolbar console.