1261339 - Implement chrome.pageCapture

Status: NEW

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Rahiel Kasim]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0

Steps to reproduce:

Looked for chrome.pageCapture on http://arewewebextensionsyet.com/ and on the WebExtensions bug list (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?component=WebExtensions&product=Toolkit&bug_status=__open__).


Actual results:

chrome.pageCapture is missing from the above API list, and there was no bug reported for it.


Expected results:

chrome.pageCapture (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/pageCapture) should be implemented as part of WebExtensions.

Comment 1

[Andy McKay]

Noted that it seems to be not used very much: https://github.com/andymckay/arewewebextensionsyet.com/blob/master/usage.csv#L218, will add to some dashboards.

Comment 2

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

I've got people pinging me about this because some open source security tools, like Hunchly (https://www.hunch.ly/ ), use it and it would be nice if these tolls weren't Chrome only due to lack of support.

Comment 3

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

What would it take to get this added, Any?

Comment 4

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

(Sigh...Andy)

Comment 5

[Rahiel Kasim]

(In reply to Al Billings [:abillings] from comment #2)
> I've got people pinging me about this because some open source security
> tools, like Hunchly (https://www.hunch.ly/ ), use it and it would be nice if
> these tolls weren't Chrome only due to lack of support.

It looks like Hunchly is proprietary and not open source. Using the tool is restricted to people who have bought a license.

Comment 6

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

You're right. It is still a useful API and lack of it is keeping folks on Chrome.

Comment 7

[Andy McKay]

If a contributor was able to land some patches, we'd accept them. But unfortunately its too low down on our priority list for a while. It's in our backlog until then.

Comment 9

[damianleung]

+1 could be useful for debug extensions too, https://github.com/wingleung/save-page-state

Comment 11

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

It's the 10th anniversary of this bug. I have heard from jkt that he'd like to implement this extension API once the necessary internals have landed (bug 40873).