fxconsole is a remote Javascript console for Firefox that runs in your terminal.
With node.js and the npm package manager:
npm install fxconsole -g
You can now use fxconsole from the command line.
Enable remote debugging (You'll only have to do this once)
Open the DevTools. Web Developer > Toggle Tools
Visit the settings panel (gear icon)
Check "Enable remote debugging" under Advanced Settings
Listen for a connection
Open the Firefox command line with Tools > Web Developer > Developer Toolbar.
Start a server by entering this command: listen 6000 (where 6000 is the port number)
Follow the instructions in this short Hacks video
This one is a bit hacky right now, and object inspection doesn't work yet, but feel free to try. The .tabs command lists the currently open apps in the simulator.
lsof -i -P | grep -i "b2g" in Linux/Mac.fxconsole and with the --port argument.fxconsole --port 6000 --host 10.251.34.157
There are two extra REPL commands available beyond the standard node.js commands. .tabs lists the open tabs in Firefox. .switch 2 switches to evaluating in a tab. The argument is the index of the tab to switch to.
FAQs
This package is no longer supported and has been deprecated. To avoid malicious use, npm is hanging on to the package name.
We found that fxconsole demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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