New console output will be turned on in Nightly soon

[Lin Clark]

We plan to turn on the new console output in Nightly soon. This will only
be the web console for now. It will be enabled in the browser console and
browser toolbox at a later date.

To make sure we haven't missed any major features or bugs, we're requesting
feedback. If there are issues that are likely to affect average developers,
we especially want to know about those.

To turn it on:

devtools.webconsole.new-frontend-enabled

We know about some missing features. We have a few patches landing today,
we expect to land some more before we turn on in Nightly, and others soon
after. See below for a list.


We have been tracking this work in GitHub, but for now you can file those
issues wherever is better for you, GitHub
<https://github.com/devtools-html/gecko-dev> --or--Bugzilla
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Developer%20Tools%3A%20Console>.
You can also find the issue to enable it
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304178> on Bugzilla.

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Landing today:

- Perf improvements
- console.table()

To fix before turning on in Nightly:

- Persisting filter prefs
- Ensuring context menus and keyboard commands work

To fix shortly after turning on in Nightly:

- Implement console.group() and some other, lesser used console api
features like console.dirxml
- Support custom CSS
- Improve text search (currently search does not include complex grips
like Objects)
- Show cached network messages and add advanced network message features
- Display the learn more link on errors

[James Long]

Congratulations!!

I'll use it heavily today and let you know if I run into anything. It
already feels so much cleaner.

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