1286742 - webextension - notify not working from background script on Firefox 48.0b7

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Quazi Mozi]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

sent a message to background script from content script.
console logs message received.  Function follows (same function works perfectly from options script but not from background script):
function notify(message) {
  console.log("afoTWGv4 - INFO - background.js - running notify function");
  chrome.notifications.create({
    "type": "basic",
    "iconUrl": chrome.extension.getURL("blah.png"),
    "title": "Blah",
    "message": message
  });
}
...
notify("Hello world.");




Actual results:

No notification.
No error or message of any sort in the javascript console except for the console.log entry mentioned above.


Expected results:

Should have gotten a notification "Hello World."

Comment 1

[Bob Silverberg [:bsilverberg]]

Can someone in QA please try to verify this? The code looks like it should work to me.

Comment 2

[Andy McKay]

(In reply to Quazi Mozi from comment #0)
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
> like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

This user agent string doesn't look like 48?

Comment 3

[Andy McKay]

Can't reproduce in OS X in Firefox 48 beta 7 and in Chrome. "Hello World" shows up. Could be a windows problem?

Comment 4

[Andy McKay]

Attachment: _msg_extensionname_-1.0.xpi

This is a copy of the example from the MDN docs changed to say Hello world on load as suggested by the author.

Comment 5

[Bob Silverberg [:bsilverberg]]

Quazi, could you please provide us with the complete code for the extension you are using which produces this problem. We are unable to reproduce it.

Comment 6

[Victor Carciu]

Tested also on Windows 10 64-bit , Firefox 48.0b7 and I was not able to reproduce for windows

Comment 7

[Victor Carciu]

Attachment: Not able to reproduce on Windows

Comment 8

[Bob Silverberg [:bsilverberg]]

Thanks Victor. In guess we need to wait for the full extension code from the OP.

Comment 9

[Quazi Mozi]

Unfortunately and fortunately, I am unable to reproduce the problem.
My firefox updated to 48.0b9 so I can only surmise the issue was resolved.
Notification from content script via background script is now working fine for me.
All I can do at this point is to apologize for diverting your attention from other important matters.

Comment 10

[Andy McKay]

No worries, thanks for the report and thanks for using WebExtensions.