1293630 - webextension empty pages show up in history

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1658229

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[cliussitt]

The following describes how "an empty page will be created for your scripts to run in" "if you specify only 'scripts'":
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/background

Now the location bar shows results like the following for each such webextension:
xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx moz-extension://xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/_blank.html

You can find such results easily by entering the following in the location bar (after installing a webextension):
moz-extension

I don't know whether non-empty webextension pages also show up, or whether they should.

Comment 1

[cliussitt]

actually, it looks like this is an issue with these pages getting saved to the history and so isn't a problem with the location bar

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

we should probably exclude this scheme from history.

Comment 3

[cliussitt]

this issue appears to be fixed since at least 51.

Comment 4

[Gingerbread Man]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
20171104100412

Nope. Still an issue.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Going to dupe this forward to bug 1658229 as that contains more information and side-effects.