On Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 5:59:27 AM UTC+13, Valentin Gosu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> (I meant to send this mail a few weeks ago but forgot it in my Drafts
> folder.)
> 
> With the landing of Bug 1303762 (Firefox 52), we now have a way for users
> to enable logging without restarting the browser, and without having to
> know what an environment variable is.
> 
> We've added a new Logging section to about:networking. When a user
> encounters a bug, all they have to do is open that page, click on "Start
> Logging", reproduce the bug, then click on "Stop Logging" and upload the
> logs. The buttons will be disabled if the MOZ_LOG_FILE or MOZ_LOG env
> variables have been defined.
> The log modules are automatically set to the most common networking
> modules, but you may instruct the bug reporters to change them - just tell
> them the string.
> 
> This is very useful for bugs that are harder to reproduce once you restart
> the browser.
> 
> There are a bunch of improvements that we could make to the UI, so please
> feel free to send me your feedback and patches. Many thanks to Honza
> Bambas, Eric Rahm, Jared Wein, Patrick McManus and all others that helped
> with the implementation and review of this bug and its dependencies.
> 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Debugging/HTTP_logging?document_saved=true#Using_aboutnetworking

This seems super handy, but I tried it out and it seems to only affect the 
parent process, and not the sub-processes of Firefox?

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