krichter Reporter
	Description • 11 years ago

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130107224407

Steps to reproduce:

- enabled browser debugger by setting devtools.debugger.chrome-enabled and devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true in about:config
- restarted browser
- clicked on Extras -> Developper -> Browser Debugger


Actual results:

nothing! Error console logs alternately for every opening of Browser Debugger
Zeitstempel: 18.01.2013 15:25:01
Fehler: NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST: Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIProcess.init]
Quelldatei: resource://gre/modules/devtools/DebuggerUI.jsm
Zeile: 513
Zeitstempel: 18.01.2013 15:25:11
Fehler: TypeError: this._dbgProcess is undefined
Quelldatei: resource://gre/modules/devtools/DebuggerUI.jsm
Zeile: 540

It seems that debuggerUI.jsm searches for firefox-bin binary file, but only binary named firefox exists on Ubuntu distros.


Expected results:

Debugger should have opened

	Andre Klapper
	Comment 1 • 11 years ago

Seeing that Ubuntu did have filenames like /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/firefox-bin in the past and naively assuming that Ubuntu renames the binary, you would have to also ask Ubuntu to patch debuggerUI.jsm then?

	krichter Reporter
	Comment 2 • 11 years ago

I've no idea about firefox's internals. Is it possible to determine the firefox command from the command line argv[0] (if it is accessible from XUL) dynamically?

	Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]
	Comment 3 • 11 years ago

Only happens with Ubuntu's Firefox? Have you reported this on their side?

	krichter Reporter
	Comment 4 • 11 years ago

Yes, it only happens with Ubuntu's firefox (but possibly with any other build that doesn't include firefox-bin in the same directory as the firefox binary). Ubuntu's firefox team seems to have dissapeared after 2011 (as https://launchpad.net/firefox indicates).