1340591 - (webext-port-s3download-statusbar) WebExtensions-Port of s3download-statusbar

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(WebExtensions :: Compatibility, defect, P5)

Description

[Stefano Caselli]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I hope the S3 Download status bar addon will be ported to WebExtensions.
(https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/s3download-statusbar)
This bug is to ask Mozilla to add necessary WE API to support this specific use case.
Thanks.

Comment 1

[Andy McKay]

Are you the add-on author? We'd need some specific API requests to be able to proceed with this and looking at that add-on there are parts of that add-on that are not possible to do in WebExtensions.

Comment 2

[YF (Yang)]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14724849#p14724849

Comment 3

[Stefano Caselli]

no, I'm not the author, but still I'd like to help.
I hope that at least the "core" of the addon can be supported: showing the downloads in a bar at the bottom of the screen (I really like the approach, since I can see all downloads progress while at the same time continuing browsing).
I already asked the author about the porting, and he was hoping to use the devtools panels api to create the download bar. is it possible?
thanks.

Comment 4

[Oleksandr]

Hey, I'm author.
when it will be possible to create a custom bottom panel (as is statusbar, download bar, etc) in WebExtensions?

Comment 5

[Andy McKay]

There is no plan to be able to create a custom bottom panel at this time.

Comment 6

[Oleksandr]

browser.downloads.search - does not display history from past sessions
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1438899

chrome.downloads.drag is not a function
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1439211

chrome.downloads.onDeterminingFilename is not a function
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1439992

WebExtensions: browser.downloads.open - not open from content script
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1439165

Comment 7

[Oleksandr]

downloadItem.exists does not change from true to false when a file is removed
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1381031

Comment 8

[Oleksandr]

browser.downloads.search - does not display history from past sessions
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255507

chrome.downloads.drag is not a function
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245648

Comment 9

[Oleksandr]

WebExtensions version:
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/s3download-statusbar/

Comment 10

[Oleksandr]

"Bug" resolved - Please close this topic

Comment 11

[Lazy Monkey]

IMHO this should not be closed: the extension was ported using an ugly hack: it injects into every loaded page it's own html, to draw its user interface.
since it a workaround it can interfere with the pages, and it's also occasionally obscured by firefox, as an example to show the load status of the page, or the links when you hover with the pointer. it also doesn't work in firefox own pages, like downloads or addons pages.
please reopen it and add necessary functionalty to properly implement s3 download statusbar, and similar addons.
thanks.