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The Firefox remote agent is a low-level debugging interface based
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on the CDP protocol.
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With it, you can inspect the state and control execution of documents
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running in web content, instrument Gecko in interesting ways,
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simulate user interaction for automation purposes, and debug
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JavaScript execution.
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This component provides an experimental and partial implementation
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of a remote devtools interface using the CDP protocol and transport
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layer.
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See https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/remote/ for documentation.
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The remote agent is not by default included in Firefox builds. To
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build it, put this in your mozconfig:
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ac_add_options --enable-cdp
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2019-02-17 19:14:01 +03:00
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This exposes a --remote-debugger flag you can use to start the
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remote agent:
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% ./mach run --setpref "browser.fission.simulate=true" -- --remote-debugger
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