Firefox developer tools console and network tabs broken

[Jan Beich]

Guido Falsi via freebsd-gecko <freebsd-gecko at freebsd.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Lately I've noticed some problem on my machine with recent firefox.
>
> In the developer tools the network tab stopped working some updates ago.
> I started using the console tab with request tracking there in it's place.

Network tab seems to work fine in Firefox 78 inside a fresh 11.3 i386 jail.

> Now the console tab stopped working too, if I open that it is just blank
> inside.

Also works fine here.

> I am also seeing similar behaviour with the quarterly package and in a
> manjaro linux VM. On windows it seems to work fine though. SO it does
> not look as a porting issue. Is this known or being worked on upstream?

On Linux try using mozregression to track down the cause. After that you
can check if anyone else has filed a regression bug or try to reason why
your configuration broke.

> Some google searches gave me no results.

Does it affect new profiles as well? Try

 $ firefox --new-instance --profile $(mktemp -dt ffprofile)

Do you see any errors on startup? Try

 $ firefox --jsconsole