801347 - `selection` events are not fired for existing documents

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

With this code:

    require("selection").on("select", function(){
      console.log(this.text);
    });

The selection's listener seems not be applied to existing documents but only new documents.

I'm not sure if it's a regression, but in according to the comments in selection's module it seems: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/blob/master/lib/sdk/selection.js#L354-358

Comment 1

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Can you see when this broke (or whether it was always broke)?

Comment 2

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

I checked with SDK 1.10, and the issue is present there as well. I can't when we start to have this issue, but in accordance with the comment I mentioned, probably we use tab-browser's tracker for that. It could be that something changed in tracker or selection code that makes it not working anymore as expected. However because tab-tracker is deprecated, we didn't find / fix it earlier.