'Nothing yet' while debugging from Firefox ESR

[le zhang]

Hi there, 

I followed the instructions on this page and connected the Firefox to the Zotero 7 beta, but I cannot see any extensions on about:debugging#/runtime/localhost%3A6100 for me to debug. 

Tabs (0) 

Nothing yes.

Temporary Extensions (0)

Nothing yet.

Extensions (0)

Nothing yet. 

There is a warning reading as follows: 

> The connected browser is more recent (102.11.0, buildID 20230811) than your Firefox (102.14.0, buildID 20230724). This is an unsupported setup and may cause DevTools to fail. Please update Firefox. Troubleshooting

I tried to install the 102.11 firefox, but there does not exist 102.11 here. I think this warning seems to matter not that much to my problem because I can inspect the main process at the bottom and the DevTools does not fail. 

I installed better-notes from an xpi file and make-it-red from source as I described in this discussion. 

I'd be grateful for a direct pointer. Thanks in advance. 

Best, 

Lerner

[Dan Stillman]

On 8/14/23 10:53 PM, le zhang wrote:

I followed the instructions on this page and connected the Firefox to the Zotero 7 beta, but I cannot see any extensions on about:debugging#/runtime/localhost%3A6100 for me to debug.

Click Inspect next to Main Process at the bottom.

Zotero plugins aren't actually WebExtensions and don't show up in the Extensions section.

[le zhang]

Thanks for the help. 

Allow me to ask a follow-up question please. What can I do to debug the two types of extensions mentioned above after entering the Inspect of Main Process? Can I inspect elements of Zotero? And I cannot see the logs I added  to the extension installed from source there. Any documentation for this problem? 

Best,

[le zhang]

I do find a documentation, but searching for zotero results in only one unrelated entry on DNS over HTTPS. 

[le zhang]

I have not found any resources on remote debugging. And I wonder what the benefits of remote debugging over local debugging are. Can anyone please help? Thanks in advance. 

[XY Wong]

> Can I inspect elements of Zotero

Remote debugging is similar to opening F12 in your browser, allowing you to inspect elements, execute scripts, and stop at breakpoints. You can access your plugin script in the main process -> debugger -> file:// -> /path/to/plugin.

[le zhang]

Thanks! XY Wong. I've found the plugin built from source there.