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debuggingfirefoxservice-worker

How to debug service workers in firefox?

Debugging service workers in FF seems ridiculously painful. I know that from main page I can

  • go in the Application panel,
  • click onto "aboutdebugging",
  • search the new page for my worker among 200 others,
  • click start
  • click inspect then
  • I got to look for two consoles instead of one and passing messages between the 2 is non trivial.

Tell me there's an easier way!

Solution

  • You need a nightly version to have a debug link near the worker.js in the application panel. In the stable version, there's only a link that displays the source of the worker.js in a new tab. How useful is that?