npm run firefox not working as expected

[OrionStar25]

Tests are working all fine, and the build for each browser works too.

[miketaylr]

Interesting, thanks @OrionStar25!

It seems like it's not able to find the Firefox binary (guessing from that error coming form which.js. Do you have Firefox installed on your machine?

[OrionStar25]

Im using Firefox quantum as of now.

[miketaylr]

@OrionStar25 ah, OK. :)

(I just assumed, b/c I couldn't see it in the sidebar from the screenshot).

[OrionStar25]

That would be the question mark xD, for some reason, the logo fails to stay after the initial milisecond. :/

[miketaylr]

For future investigation, it seems like the fx-runner module is failing to find the binary: mozilla/node-fx-runner#7 seems related.

[deeptibaghel]

Looks like it is a bug reported at web-ext also: mozilla/web-ext#1083

[miketaylr]

Thanks! (I'm going to delete your previous commments just so we keep this issue less cluttered.)

[laghee]

Extra logging with verbose flag on web-ext (installed as dev dependency):

~/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions[kmanning](issues/131/1) 🖖🏻 npm run firefox -- -f beta -p webcompat -v

> [email protected] firefox /Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions
> web-ext run --source-dir=dist/firefox "-f" "beta" "-p" "webcompat" "-v"

[program.js][info] Version: 2.7.0
[program.js][debug] Getting the version from package.json
[program.js][debug] Discovering config files. Set --no-config-discovery to disable
[config.js][debug] Discovered config "/Users/kmanning/.web-ext-config.js" does not exist or is not readable
[config.js][debug] Discovered config "/Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/web-ext-config.js" does not exist or is not readable
[program.js][info] Applying config file: ./package.json
[config.js][debug] Loading JS config file: "/Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/package.json" (resolved to "/Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/package.json")
[config.js][debug] Looking for webExt key inside package.json file
[config.js][debug] Config file /Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/package.json did not define any options. Did you set module.exports = {...}?
[program.js][error] 
Error: Cannot find module 'colors'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/node_modules/web-ext/dist/webpack:/external "colors":1:1)
    at __webpack_require__ (/Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/node_modules/web-ext/dist/webpack:/webpack/bootstrap 53a217b667dd1e5cd9de:19:1)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/node_modules/web-ext/dist/webpack:/node_modules/@cliqz-oss/firefox-client/lib/client.js:5:1)
    at __webpack_require__ (/Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/node_modules/web-ext/dist/webpack:/webpack/bootstrap 53a217b667dd1e5cd9de:19:1)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/node_modules/web-ext/dist/webpack:/node_modules/@cliqz-oss/firefox-client/lib/browser.js:3:1)
    at __webpack_require__ (/Users/kmanning/Dropbox/Coding/Mozilla/webcompat-reporter-extensions/node_modules/web-ext/dist/webpack:/webpack/bootstrap 53a217b667dd1e5cd9de:19:1)

[program.js][error] Error code: MODULE_NOT_FOUND

[program.js][debug] Command executed: run
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] firefox: `web-ext run --source-dir=dist/firefox "-f" "beta" "-p" "webcompat" "-v"`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] firefox script.

Looks like it's throwing an error because it doesn't find config info in package.json, which maybe means they made it required rather than optional in one of these merges? But that doesn't explain why it works (or seems to) with a global or source-linked install of web-ext...