This is very useful! Thank you for adding this!

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> This is awesome, thanks for implementing this!
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:09 AM, J. Ryan Stinnett <jry...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> With bug 1275942 in Firefox 55, a new Firefox CLI option was added:
>> `--wait-for-jsdebugger`.
>>
>> Example usage:
>>
>> 1. Add "debugger;" to top of browser/base/content/browser.js
>> 2. $ ./mach run --jsdebugger --wait-for-jsdebugger
>> 3. Browser Toolbox opens, pausing Firefox startup at the added line
>>
>> This triggers Firefox to wait until the debugger connects, which makes it
>> possible to debug some Firefox startup JS code paths. (Some startup paths
>> might run before the DevTools command line handler, so for the moment they
>> won't pause. This could be improved in the future by moving the CLI handler
>> earlier in startup.)
>>
>> (If you're wondering why an extra flag was added, this mode makes the
>> Browser Toolbox use a different default window in the Inspector, which
>> might confuse people if it was the default.)
>>
>> Let me know if it's useful and / or you see room for improvement.
>>
>> - Ryan
>>
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