1029350 - When window is opened extra tab activate is reported when adding listener using firefox add-on sdk

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[alagiri buddhar]

Attachment: main.js

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140421221237

Steps to reproduce:

I used add-on sdk to listen to window and tab events like opening,closing ,activate adn deactivate.
when i open a new window two to three times from a window with the add-on sdk installed one extra tab activate is reported which is not expected behaviour


Actual results:

tab open
tab activate
window open
window deactivate
tab deactivate
tab activate
window activate
window deactivate



Expected results:

tab open
tab activate
window open
window deactivate
tab deactivate
tab activate
window activate
tab open
tab activate
window open
tab deactivate
window activate
window deactivate

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Is the extra activate event for the tab for the actual tab? What kinds of problems can this cause you?

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399562