DevTools/Roadmap

	Firefox DevTools 2015 Roadmap
	Owner: Joe Walker	Updated: 2015-09-22
	This roadmap outlines the current direction for Firefox DevTools development through 2015. The following document is subject to change at anytime. It is also not a commitment to ship a features but rather an intent to implement and land them on by default in the nightly version of Firefox unless otherwise stated.

Related Links:

• Q4 DevTools etherpad
• Firefox Release Calendar

Teams

Definition of Done: All listed features are present in our nightly version of Firefox. The features must then go through the standard quality assurance process before appearing in a release channel.

Global

Current Plans	Backlog
Source Map support in all tools (jsantell/jlong) meta ------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------	Unified table/tree widget Debugging Panels Improvement Developer Friction - git(hub) clone? docs? all modules can be hot-reloaded? james working on loading tools in a tab?

e10s

Current Plans	Backlog
------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------	meta Enable tests for all of e10s

Content

Current Plans

Backlog

Read write in storage tool (mratcliffe) Cookies & local storage in storage tool (mratcliffe) ------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------

Multiple viewports for Responsive Design (jryans) IndexedDB support in storage tool (blocked by 1059724 Displaying keyframes, animated props in Animation Inspector (pbro) In-content layout editor (GeometryHighlighter) (zer0) Better SVG support (polygon/shape points highlighters, in-content editor?) More MDN integration (markup-view, gcli command) Extract diff of CSS changes (which should almost be made possible thanks to the as-authored project) (zer0) Markup-view configurations (many people asking for options to remove ellipsis in long attributes, or show/hide attributes, show/hide text nodes, etc...) Authored styles and undo/redo in rule view Auto-update to latest CodeMirror (gl) Search plain text in inspector (bgrins)

Console

Current Plans	Backlog
------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------	Console performance (bgrins) Multiline editing Save object in output as variable on page Console papercuts 2015

Debugging

Current Plans	Backlog
------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------	Debugging Basic workers Debugging Shared workers Debugging Service workers Debugger pausing (XHR, postMessage, promises?) (eddy)

Gaming/Media

Current Plans	Backlog
------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------ Unified Gaming Tool Prototype (vporof, jsantell)	Gaming Meta Bug

Networking

Current Plans	Backlog
------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------	WebSockets: Honza, Axel synchronizing the effort with platform (Andrea Marchesini so far), Luca, Florent also involved in it.websockets summary, meta (honza)

Performance/Memory

Current Plans	Backlog
Memory Tool v1 (jsantell) ------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------	Extend ubi::Node graph to include things managed by the cycle collector [jimb] Make heap snapshots speak IPDL so they work in sandboxed child processes for e10s / fxos [fitzgen] Shortest paths to GC roots [fitzgen] Dominator trees [fitzgen]

Remote

Current Plans	Backlog
------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------	Support most common targets in about:debugging (janx) Ensure valence works, support matrix? (jeff)