1037198 - [E10S] The 'SearchPreview' Addon is no longer Working/Compatible

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Achwaq Khalid]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140707030202

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

hi Edward, if you have any questions about add-on support for multiprocess Firefox (e10s), just drop by the #e10s IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org. MDN also has a good introduction:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox

Comment 2

[Edward]

Hi Chris, I have ported SearchPreview to Add-on SDK (high level APIs only), it works fine in Firefox 32 and Nightly without e10s, but when I enable e10s it does not work. 

I think I am running into https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060138 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060695

I read here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox that “the Add-on SDK isn't yet fully compatible with multiprocess Firefox, but it will be soon”: What is target date for full compatibility?

The same document promises “if you only use the Add-on SDK's high-level APIs, you won't be affected”: Does this promise still stand?

When do you plan to enable e10s by default in Firefox?

Comment 3

[Edward]

Also having this issue: bug 1062892

Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

hi Edward, there are still e10s issues we are fixing in the Add-on SDK. We hope to enable e10s by default in Firefox 36 (on the Nightly channel in October 2014 and on the Release channel in February 2015).

Comment 5

[Edward]

I have released SearchPreview 8.0 with E10S compatibility, it is currently in review at AMO and available here for testing:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchpreview/versions/

Comment 6

[Edward]

There was a slight issue with SearchPreview 8.0. Version 8.1 should work.

Comment 7

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Thanks, Edward!