[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#585922: chromium-browser-inspector: Simply doesn't work

[Jonathan Nieder]

tags 585922 - moreinfo unreproducible
retitle 585922 chromium-browser-inspector: copes poorly with frames
severity 585922 normal
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Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:

> After clicking around a bit more, it seems that it only fails for pages
> using frames. There it will select the frame when you click the element.
> Chromium should instead select the element within the frame inside the dev
> pane.

Thanks for the clarification.  Indeed, that’s true:

1. Visit http://java.sun.com/javase/7/docs/api/
2. Select Tools → Developer → Developer Tools from the browser chrome
   (or press ctrl-shift-I)
3. Choose Elements from the top of the developer tools window
4. Click the black magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the developer
   tools window, so it turns blue
5. Click on a frame.  Its <frame> tag gets selected.
6. Click the manifying glass icon again.
7. Click on an element within the selected frame.

Even though individual elements are correctly highlighted when you
hover, the inspector window refuses to automagically jump to the correct
tag.

Could you report this upstream through
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=Defect%20on%20Linux
so we can work on a fix there (and send a link to this bug log)?

If you can’t because you don’t have an account or something, that’s
fine, too, but please do let us know.

Thanks again,
Jonathan