Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp] Reporter
	Description • 11 years ago

Push a button. Reduce clutter.

	Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp] Reporter
	Comment 1 • 11 years ago

Moving into Developer Tools: Netmonitor component. Filter on NETMONITORAMA.

	David Creswick
	Comment 2 • 11 years ago

Is this actually useful? The list of requests is cleared on page navigation anyway.

	Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp] Reporter
	Comment 3 • 11 years ago

(In reply to David Creswick from comment #2)
> Is this actually useful? The list of requests is cleared on page navigation
> anyway.

Sometimes the requests keep adding up, for example, on manual POSTs, on hovers (images) etc. In a development process, I often find it useful to clear all the added context and start from scratch, but without refreshing the page.

	David Creswick
	Comment 4 • 11 years ago

(In reply to Victor Porof [:vp] from comment #3)
> (In reply to David Creswick from comment #2)
> > Is this actually useful? The list of requests is cleared on page navigation
> > anyway.
> 
> Sometimes the requests keep adding up, for example, on manual POSTs, on
> hovers (images) etc. In a development process, I often find it useful to
> clear all the added context and start from scratch, but without refreshing
> the page.

Okay. Maybe it would be more useful though to have the netmonitor automatically scroll down upon new net transfers, but only when the scroll position is already at the bottom. (That would be useful irrespective of this bug.) I question throwing away information that one might not know one will later want.

	Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp] Reporter
	Comment 5 • 11 years ago

(In reply to David Creswick from comment #4)
> 
> Okay. Maybe it would be more useful though to have the netmonitor
> automatically scroll down upon new net transfers, but only when the scroll
> position is already at the bottom. 

Great idea.

	Trev
	Comment 7 • 11 years ago

I was just looking for this feature.  My pages have polling ajax requests that run every 5 seconds.  After a few minutes, the list is really large and it becomes hard to find the request that I really care about.  With Firebug, my workflow is to clear the list before I fire the requests that I'm working on.  This way, those requests are at the very top and are easy to find.  So either a way to clear the list or a way to filter the list would be nice.

	Alex-Tech
	Comment 8 • 11 years ago

(In reply to Victor Porof [:vp] from comment #5)
> (In reply to David Creswick from comment #4)
> > 
> > Okay. Maybe it would be more useful though to have the netmonitor
> > automatically scroll down upon new net transfers, but only when the scroll
> > position is already at the bottom. 
> 
> Great idea.

If for whatever reason clearing will not be allowed, in addition to scrolling will be helpful to somehow visually separate new requests from previously loaded ones.  This is almost the only way to distinguish how single page web applications interact with the server when using Backbone or ExtJS.

	Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)
	Comment 9 • 11 years ago

This idea seems to be popular:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/reintroducing-the-firefox-developer-tools-part-1-the-web-console-and-the-javascript-debugger/comment-page-1/#comment-2153333

I can definitely see the utility of being able to clear away requests as you continue to use a single page  app that uses REST apis or the like. Should we bump the priority of this?

	Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]
	Comment 10 • 11 years ago

This is also very useful for debugging the main process: There is no reload in this case, so network requests just pile up. I'd love for this to be bumped for the sake of debugging connections inside Thunderbird.

	Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp] Reporter
	Comment 11 • 11 years ago

okay

	Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp] Reporter
	Comment 13 • 11 years ago

Marking this as being a good first bug, because it's easy.

	Cameron Paul Assignee
	Comment 14 • 11 years ago

Added a clear button next to the summary text (I wasn't sure where it should go).

	Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp] Reporter
	Comment 15 • 11 years ago

Ooh, thank you so much for working on this! I'll add you as the assignee and review your patch asap.

	Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp] Reporter
	Comment 16 • 11 years ago

Comment on attachment 8336584 [details] [diff] [review]
net_monitor_clear_button.patch

Review of attachment 8336584 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Beautiful work! Thank you!

	Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]
	Comment 17 • 11 years ago

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/ab3aecf99fe4

	Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)
	Comment 18 • 11 years ago

\o/ woo, thanks Cameron! People have really been asking for this.

	Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)
	Comment 19 • 11 years ago

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ab3aecf99fe4