1352189 - Creating a tab of a deleted container is permitted

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Jonathan Kingston [:jkt] he/him]

When I use:

browser.tabs.create({url: confirmUrl, cookieStoreId: `firefox-container-2`})

Where I have deleted container 2, the browser opens the tab in a non container, I personally think this should be an exception as it might make developers easily open up privacy issues where they didn't check the containerId.

In my own use case it actually makes the code a lot more complex as I don't currently have the contextualIdentities api.

The contextualIdentities api coming in 53 will allow me to check for this however I would prefer to reduce code complexity and errors.

I would also push for using the userContextId instead of/also for creating tabs and referencing them.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Kingston [:jkt] he/him]

I forgot to mention the created tab actually has the correct cookieStoreId rather than default.

This prevents me implementing the fix for this in web extensions in 52.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401020

Comment 3

[Andy McKay]

Based on your comment 1, is this still valid?

Comment 4

[Jonathan Kingston [:jkt] he/him]

Yeah I think this got fixed with the changes in 57. Lets close this.