browser-client: Downgrade browser console log levels #440
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Description
Downgrades browser console log messages:
Motivation and Context
Throughout time, OBS has logged browser console.log errors as warnings in the OBS log as an easy way for browser source developers to find and fix issues with their pages. Unfortunately, this functionality seems to be almost completely ignored by many browser source providers. This logging does, however, clog up many OBS logs and result in readability issues when troubleshooting unrelated problems.
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No more log spam in my OBS log from random browser pages
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Generally fine with this, but I think there would be value in another PR that added a summarized report to the log when a browser source is reloaded or destroyed, just so that this information isn't totally shoved under the rug.
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Is it worth considering having an option on the browser source to enable/disable this feature? I support a few streamers where sometimes I have to come in after-the-fact and figure out from the logs why something was misbehaving, and there have definitely been a few times where the logging from the browser sources let me do that -- so for those streamers, having the existing behavior is really valuable, and I could just have those streamers leave that value set appropriately, and I personally am willing to wade through the normal browser source spam to be able to have it there when I actually need it.
From off-thread discussions, I'd be far more in favor of just moving browser messages to a separate file and leaving everything else as-is.
Understandably, this comes with a different set of challenges for things like handling log uploads and such, but I personally feel that this has been such a pain to try and shove in the main OBS log for a long time now, and it's time to just separate it.
@Fenrirthviti This is possible here:
github.com/obsproject/obs-browser@b4f724ae6a/obs-browser-plugin.cpp (L312-L313)LOGSEVERITY_DISABLEwould need to be changed toLOGSEVERITY_WARNING, and we'd probably want to give it a nicer filename thandebug.log(stored in the same location as the cookie directories).Sure, that part is easy, the concern would be adding a new option to upload the browser log file for support purposes. We do far less sanitization on browser logging than we do our own logging, so uploading that to us would make me slightly nervous from a privacy standpoint, but it's just shunting what we're already logging/uploading as part of the main log anyway, so it should be fine. We should have a warning on upload or something, but that can be discussed off-thread here.
As I'm against this specific PR as a solution, I'm voting in favor of closing this and moving the logging/uploading to a separate file.
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