1108581 - getBrowserSelection uses cpows in chrome code

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/base/content/browser.js#5452

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?string=getBrowserSelection

Looks like this uses a lot of sync ipc calls. We should investigate, there aren't a lot of callers, so maybe we can just deprecate this call and add new one that's async.

Comment 1

[Bill McCloskey [inactive unless it's an emergency] (:billm)]

We use a lot of CPOWs in the context menu already, and this code is basically for the context menu. So I don't think this is worth fixing by itself.