Closed Bug 1273821 Opened 9 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Remove about:serviceworkers and redirect to about:debugging#workers

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Service Workers, defect, P2)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Service Workers
Version:
47 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: janx, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: btpp-fixlater)

The about:serviceworkers page is being migrated into about:debugging's "Workers" section. Once every feature of about:serviceworkers has been reimplemented in about:debugging (bug 1220747), we should completely remove the about:serviceworkers page, and make its URL redirect to about:debugging#workers.
Summary: Remove about:serviceworkers and make it point to about:debugging#workers → Remove about:serviceworkers and redirect to about:debugging#workers
WE've already got bug 1220747. Jan, I'll leave it up to you how you want to merge things.
Flags: needinfo?(janx)
Whiteboard: btpp-meta
And of course now I read the other bug and see that that's a special case. Carry on :)
Flags: needinfo?(janx)
Yes, bug 1220747 is the meta bug for the migration, but this bug is for actually removing the page and redirecting the URL once all dependencies of the meta bug have been resolved.
Whiteboard: btpp-meta
Whiteboard: btpp-fixlater
Is this still a feature request?

Jens, since about:serviceworkers stopped working – could you help clarify if this migration work is something your team would work on or is owned by DevTools?

Flags: needinfo?(jstutte)

Andrew?

Flags: needinfo?(jstutte) → needinfo?(bugmail)

I've got a patch up to make about:serviceworkers work again on bug 1515945 where in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515945#c7 :snorp indicated a desire to keep it around.

I think it could also make sense to keep it around as a place for exposing internals that aren't appropriate/friendly to expose via devtools. Which might suggest the right next steps are:

  1. Rename about:serviceworkers to about:serviceworker-internals
  2. Put a link to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox at the top that expresses that that is the supported devtools UI for dealing with ServiceWorkers.
Flags: needinfo?(bugmail)
Severity: normal → S3

It's clear at this point that we want to keep about:serviceworkers for internals purposes, so going to mark this WONTFIX.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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