(my apologies to people both here and on dev-developer-tools for sending this twice to them).
Tl;dr: The DevTools team is planning to pref off and later unship the Developer Toolbar (aka GCLI), starting in Firefox 60.
The Developer Toolbar [1] gives a command line access to some power-user and developer actions in Firefox.
It can be opened via the tools menu or with shift+F2 and appears as a footer bar at the bottom of the browser window.
Some of the commands it supports are: restart (to restart firefox), screenshot (to take a screenshot of the page), opening DevTools, listing cookies, listing prefs, listing addons, etc.
It is based on GCLI [2] which is vendored in mozilla-central.
It was added to Firefox back in 2012 (in Firefox 17 I believe), but has never received much usage over the past 6 years.
The main reasons being that it's a fairly hard to discover and that it's a tool only for people comfortable with a command line environment.
As of Firefox 60 we intend to pref off the developer toolbar, and then remove the associated code from Firefox in 61.
The reasons for this are:
- Both the Developer Toolbar UI and the GCLI upstream library have become unmaintained.
- Some of its features are broken, some ever since e10s ([3][4]).
- It is blocking the UnsafeSetInnerHTML work [5].
- Usage numbers are very low.
- Alternatives exist for the most used commands.
- We have other ideas for allowing power users to access common actions via the keyboard which appear more adapted and more DevTools-related (e.g. having special commands in the DevTools console, or having a command palette like Chrome has which originally came from text editors like Sublime Text).
The meta bug to follow the work around unshipping the Developer Toolbar is [6].
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/GCLI
[2] https://github.com/joewalker/gcli
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1228034
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376726
[5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444394
[6] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429421
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan....@gmail.com> wrote:Every now and then I have used the "security csp" command to view the CSP policy of a site.
You're right, the network monitor sidebar tab shortens long headers, and that makes it harder to read/copy them.I guess one option is to click on the "raw headers" button above to see them a little more clearly that way.
Would it change the current URL in Firefox prior to the restart
or would the URL revert back to the one before during the restart
process?