[opensuse] Firefox javascript debugger
I'm obviously missing something pretty basic, but can anybody tell me what? I want to debug a javascript program on a web page. So I fire up FF, go to the Tools menu and select Web Developer and then Debugger. The developer area opens at the bottom of the window but it is blank. Then I repeat the process and the developer area contains some ASCII art style buttons and two areas titled 'Breakpoints' and 'Watch Expressions' both containing text that says they are empty. It's all black text on a white background. Oh and there's just the top of some box showing above. I pasted an image at https://paste.opensuse.org/49017814 When I look at the mozilla MDN pages, they show the debugger as multi-coloured text on a black background and say there should be three areas at the bottom, with the right-hand one divided into four parts. So completely different. What am I missing? TIA, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/14/2019 03:17 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
I'm obviously missing something pretty basic, but can anybody tell me what?
Well, When I do it, I usually go to the page, open FF Inspector, and then click on 'Debugger' and the page components (javscript, php, hmtl) sources should be listed on the left with the code in the right, e.g. http://paste.opensuse.org/view//56770921 (good 1-week) If that doesn't work, then there may be some new tricks to anonynomize the javascript of some other 3rd party cross-site embedding that I'm just to old to care about at this point. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:16:28 -0600 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 01/14/2019 03:17 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
I'm obviously missing something pretty basic, but can anybody tell me what?
Well,
When I do it, I usually go to the page, open FF Inspector, and then click on 'Debugger' and the page components (javscript, php, hmtl) sources should be listed on the left with the code in the right, e.g.
http://paste.opensuse.org/view//56770921 (good 1-week)
Ah, progress. I opened your paste in a window that was wider than the one I snapshotted and then I did what you suggested and I got the three pane layout. So that's part of the mystery solved by serendipity. (i.e. Crap programming by whoever wrote the debugger exposed) But I don't have any buttons like yours in the row above (i.e. Inspector, Console, Debugger, Style Editor etc). It's blank. And other components are in somewhat different positions. You don't have the correct layout either, BTW, if you look at MDN to see what it's supposed to look like. Are we using the same versions of FF? I have the standard openSUSE Leap 15.0 60.4.0esr (64-bit). Hmm, as a test, I fired up tor-browser. I get the row of buttons there. So it seems like the problems are openSUSE specific. Why have we both got this strange black on white colour scheme? Ah, on the tor-browser I have a cog icon for settings and one of the settings is dark or light theme. So that's a feature, not a bug.
If that doesn't work, then there may be some new tricks to anonynomize the javascript of some other 3rd party cross-site embedding that I'm just to old to care about at this point.
I don't understand what you mean? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/15/2019 12:41 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
If that doesn't work, then there may be some new tricks to anonynomize the javascript of some other 3rd party cross-site embedding that I'm just to old to care about at this point. I don't understand what you mean?
What I meant was if you get to the right pane and you expect to see some javascript file and there is none where you know there should be -- then I'm out of answers and can only guess the javascript is being hidden by some new-fangled cleverness... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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