This Week in DevTools (November 12, 2019)

[Patrick Brosset]

Hi there,

A slightly shorter update than usual this week, but here it is:

Console

• Showing async separators again — Bug 1592969

• They got lost when we switched to SmartTrace component

• A test was added to ensure we don’t regress again

• Working on a fix for autocompletion issue when the user accept a completion (with Enter, Tab or right arrow) shortly after typing a letter — Bug 1595068 

Layout/Mobile Tools

• WebCompat

• Investigated MDN compat data problem [bug 1594643]. Turns out Edge Mobile was removed.

• The main patches for the new built-in compat tool are landing in mozilla-central these days.

• You can test the tool with this Try push: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=3f6a337a7bf8956bb0cd3594199360bb7d495614 

• Martin will demo the tool this week at Chrome DevSummit.

• Quality

• The dt-q backlog is becoming a bit tricky to work on, the remaining bugs are hard projects that can't be worked on in parallel with other projects.

• Will add more bugs, maybe from other components too, and look at long standing bugs in the list, see if they still are dt-q bug like.

DEBTools

• Removed WebConsoleFront evaluateJS — Bug 1595012

• You should be able to evaluateJSAsync the same way