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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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2019-04-24 17:18:22 +00:00
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The remote agent is disabled by default, but can be enabled by
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setting a preference before running it:
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% ./mach run --setpref "remote.enabled=true" --remote-debugger
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