# HG changeset patch # User Oleksandr Gavenko # Date 1350545947 -10800 # Node ID 5b6d6859fdbcf4c20e7da28d9c3316335f0b711a # Parent 4ab574ec70678e707bfe3de98842b37e47330c03 Convert to RST syntax. diff -r 4ab574ec7067 -r 5b6d6859fdbc firefox-devel.rst --- a/firefox-devel.rst Thu Oct 18 09:21:39 2012 +0300 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,155 +0,0 @@ --*- mode: outline; coding: utf-8; fill-column: 90 -*- - -* Setting up environment. - -In 'about:config' set this variable: - - javascript.options.showInConsole = true - Logs errors in chrome files to the Error Console. - javascript.options.strict = true - Enables strict JavaScript warnings in the Error Console. - extensions.logging.enabled = true - This will send more detailed information about installation and update - problems to the Error Console. - - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Setting_up_extension_development_environment - setting up profile, options and about developer plugin - -* Useful developer plugin. - -** Firebug. - -Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips -while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any -web page. - - http://getfirebug.com - home page - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1843 - download page - -** Live HTTP Headers. - - * First by adding a 'Headers' tab in 'View Page Info' of a web page. - * Second by adding a tool in the 'Tools->Web Development' menu to be able to display http - headers in real time (while pages are being downloaded from the Internet. - * Third by letting you edit request headers and replay an URL (beta). Look for the Replay - button in the live window! - -This project may be of some help for the following: - - * Help debugging web application. - * See which kind of web server the remote site is using. - * See the cookies sent by remote site. - -Alternatively you can use fiddler2 (only Windows as it written in .NET) - - http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ - home page - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829/ - download page - http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/ - Web Debugging Proxy - -** Tamper Data. - - * Use tamperdata to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters. - * Trace and time http response/requests. - * Security test web applications by modifying POST parameters. - -Based on code and incompotable with "Live HTTP Headers" extensions. - - http://tamperdata.mozdev.org/index.html - home page - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/966/ - download page - http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tamper_Data - -* How build Firefox. - - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Build_Documentation - Build Instructions - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_Source_Code_%28Mercurial%29 - Getting Mozilla Source Code Using Mercurial - -* Extension security. - - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Security_best_practices_in_extensions - -* Debugin Firefox. - - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/how_to_get_a_stacktrace_with_windbg - -* Debugin JavaScript in Firefox. - -// Logs errors in chrome files to the Error Console. Enable Components.utils.reportError(). -user_pref("javascript.options.showInConsole", true); -// Disables the XUL cache so that changes to windows and dialogs do not require a restart. -user_pref("nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache", true); -// Enables the use of the dump() statement to print to the standard console. -user_pref("browser.dom.window.dump.enabled", true); -// Enables strict JavaScript warnings in the Error Console. -user_pref("javascript.options.strict", true); -// This enables to run JavaScript code snippets in the chrome context of the Scratchpad from the Tools menu. -user_pref("devtools.chrome.enabled", true); -// This will send more detailed information about installation and update problems to the Error Console. -user_pref("extensions.logging.enabled", true); -user_pref("dom.report_all_js_exceptions", true); - -** Debugging JavaScript in Firefox with Web Console. - -'console.log()', 'console.info()', 'console.warn()', 'console.error()'. - - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_the_Web_Console - -** Debugging JavaScript in Firefox with Firebug. - -With Firebug you can use 'console.log(obj)' for logging. Also output can be grouped with -console.group("name") to start a new indentation block, and then console.groupEnd(). - -Same but with different coloring do 'console.debug', 'console.info', 'console.warn', and -'console.error' functions. - -'console.log' can format strings in the great tradition of printf. - -'console.trace()' - to print trace. - - http://getfirebug.com/logging - logging - http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Console_API - Console API - -** dump(). - -Set in 'about:config' 'browser.dom.window.dump.enabled' to 'true'. - -All messages go to native console. On Windows this require '-console' option for 'firefox.exe'. - - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.dump - -** Components.utils.reportError. - -Write error msg to Error console (not in Web Console). - - Components.utils.reportError("msg"); - // Show the error console. - toJavaScriptConsole(); - -Firefox 3.x require set preference 'javascript.options.showInConsole' to 'true' which is -default value fro Firefox 4.x. - - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Components.utils.reportError - -* Native Firefox debugging. - -** Adding symbols from Symbol Server. - -Execute in WinDbg: - - .sympath SRV*c:\symcache\*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;SRV*c:\symcache\*http://symbols.mozilla.org/firefox - -or Ctrl+S and add: - - SRV*c:\symcache\*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;SRV*c:\symcache\*http://symbols.mozilla.org/firefox - - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_the_Mozilla_symbol_server