Bugzilla

Since the "fix" for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1637922 landed, "navigator.connection" is undefined not only for websites but also for Add-ons. There are reasons why Add-ons want to know which kind of connection currently is available to do filtering based on this information.

I'm developing a pretty simple Add-on which does this:
https://github.com/M-Reimer/mobilemediablocker
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mobilemediablocker/

The idea of this Add-on is to block all media requests if the connection is of cellular type. This is very useful for most data plans in Germany as we pay a fortune for just a few 100 megabytes of data. If the wifi connection dies for whatever reason and the phone reconnects using the cellular network, then it regularly happened to me that I kept surfing using cellular data without really noticing and ending with no data volume left for the month.

So please either allow the privileged Add-on Javascript to have access to a "non crippled" navigator.connection or add a new WebExtensions API to provide similar functionality.

For now I had to re-enable dom.netinfo.enabled

Since the "fix" for Bug 1637922 landed, "navigator.connection" is undefined not only for websites but also for Add-ons. There are reasons why Add-ons want to know which kind of connection currently is available to do filtering based on this information.

I'm developing a pretty simple Add-on which does this:
https://github.com/M-Reimer/mobilemediablocker
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mobilemediablocker/

The idea of this Add-on is to block all media requests if the connection is of cellular type. This is very useful for most data plans in Germany as we pay a fortune for just a few 100 megabytes of data. If the wifi connection dies for whatever reason and the phone reconnects using the cellular network, then it regularly happened to me that I kept surfing using cellular data without really noticing and ending with no data volume left for the month.

So please either allow the privileged Add-on Javascript to have access to a "non crippled" navigator.connection or add a new WebExtensions API to provide similar functionality.

For now I had to re-enable dom.netinfo.enabled