1269533 - sdk/windows browserWindows list broken after javascript:window.open()

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160426233433

Steps to reproduce:

0. Install attached BrowserWindowsTest extension for the debug shortcut Ctrl+Alt+D and start a clean session of Firefox, one window open. (Or you can run it with "jpm run -b /usr/bin/firefox").

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+D and observe the Debug console [1]
2. Press Ctrl+N to open a new browser window
3. Press Ctrl+Alt+D and observe the Debug console [2]
4. Enter "javascript:window.open('about:blank');" into the address bar and press Enter.
5. Press Ctrl+Alt+D and observe the Debug console [3]

[A] one browser window open:
console.log: browserwindowstest: windows.browserWindows.length = 1
console.log: browserwindowstest: constructor {"0":{}}

[B] two browser windows open:
console.log: browserwindowstest: windows.browserWindows.length = 2
console.log: browserwindowstest: constructor {"0":{},"1":{}}

[C] three (!) browser windows open:
console.log: browserwindowstest: windows.browserWindows.length = 2
console.log: browserwindowstest: constructor {"0":{},"1":{}}

You can continue opening browser windows with Ctrl+N and window.open() with the same results - those opened with Ctrl+N are added to sdk/windows browserWindows list, and those opened with window.open() are not.


Actual results:

sdk/windows browserWindows list does not contain BrowserWindows opened with window.open().
However these windows are visually no different from BrowserWindows opened with Ctrl+N.

Also no 'open' event is triggered for sdk/windows browserWindows after window.open().

So there is no way to list all opened BrowserWindows.
This renders that SDK API *useless* for performing operations on browser windows from within an addon.



Expected results:

sdk/windows browserWindows should contain *ALL* BrowserWindows opened, both with Ctrl+N and with window.open().

Comment 1

[Ciprian Muresan [:cmuresan], Formerly of Ecosystem QA - please needinfo @mcoman for things regarding the team]

Hi,

I've installed your addon in the hopes of reproducing this, but the Ctrl+Alt+D shortcut does not do anything. Also I don't see anything like "console.log: browserwindowstest: windows.browserWindows.length = 1" in the Browser Console(Ctrl+Shift+J).  Do I need to do additional setup to get this to work as you are describing it?

Thanks,
Cipri

Comment 2

[Ciprian Muresan [:cmuresan], Formerly of Ecosystem QA - please needinfo @mcoman for things regarding the team]

Marking this as Resolved: Incomplete due to the lack of response from the reporter.
If anyone can still reproduce it on latest versions, feel free to reopen the issue and provide more information.