1318114 - Nicer alert message

Status: NEW

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect, P5)

Description

[Andy McKay]

Attachment: Screenshot 2016-11-16 13.23.16.png

If you throw an alert you can get a message that reads:

The page moz-extension://..... says:

It would be awesome if we could get that to say something like:

The extension [Totally Awesome Add-on] says:

Attached is an example from tabs-tabs-tabs when you zoom to full:

https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/tabs-tabs-tabs

Comment 1

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Simply the "name" from the add-on manifest.json would be a big improvement over moz-extensions://meaningless-data.

I was hoping bug 1333376 would improve this, but the titlePreface is actually put after that moz-extensions thing, so the user can't even see it.

Comment 2

[ariasuni]

Is this still relevant? alert() and similar stuff don’t include the header “The page at moz-extension://[…] says” on my Firefox. Or is it an macOS specific issue?

Comment 3

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

Try the example from comment 0 and see if it still reproduces, it probably does.