Moving my review comment over here, with a little more context. After some discussion and refreshing of memory, I don't think we'd accept this change. The behavior here is intentional that is requires the action to be done during the user event. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/User_actions
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Moving my review comment over here, with a little more context. After some discussion and refreshing of memory, I don't think we'd accept this change. The behavior here is intentional that it requires the action to be done during the user event. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/User_actions