Closed Bug 1284154 Opened 8 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Perapera add-on is not working in e10s (multiprocess firefox)

Categories

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Extension Compatibility
Version:
50 Branch
Platform:
Unspecified
Windows 10
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
e10s + ---

People

(Reporter: bugzilla.mozilla.org, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: [unsafe cpow] triaged) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20160703030210

Steps to reproduce:

Install Nightly (v50); install 'Perapera Chinese Popup Dictionary' add-on; activate add-on on webpage


Actual results:

Add-on does auto-select one or multiple Chinese characters, but doesn't display the popup with translation


Expected results:

It should auto-select one or multiple characters AND display the popup with translation
OS: Unspecified → Windows 10
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
tracking-e10s: --- → ?
Confirmed. It will works in the session after press A key.

I see many "unsafe CPOW usage" in browser console. function showPopup & hidePopup in chrome://cperapera/content/cperapera.js
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ad...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Extension Compatibility
Ever confirmed: true
Hardware: x86_64 → Unspecified
just info for triaging: roughly 400,000 downloads.  issue being seen on latest version of add-on (feb 2016).  also a japanese version of add-on with roughly 300,000 users (jan 2016)
Priority: -- → P2
chinese 10,000 users and japanese 4,000 users.
Priority: P2 → P3
Whiteboard: [unsafe cpow] triaged
With Firefox 57 only WebExtensions are permitted and are, by default, e10s compatible.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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