1296896 - Content script's async methods may return a promise for chrome.* methods because chrome===browser

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Content process:
- ChildAPIManager
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/f433f0dd7158d7bfc4c4607161fc6baa88b5a9f4/toolkit/components/extensions/ExtensionUtils.jsm#1482
- API injection http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/f433f0dd7158d7bfc4c4607161fc6baa88b5a9f4/toolkit/components/extensions/ExtensionContent.jsm#406

Browser process: 
- wrapper http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/f433f0dd7158d7bfc4c4607161fc6baa88b5a9f4/toolkit/components/extensions/Extension.jsm#669
- API injection http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/f433f0dd7158d7bfc4c4607161fc6baa88b5a9f4/toolkit/components/extensions/Extension.jsm#726 (browser !== chrome)

This bug is currently limited to schema-generated content script APIs. Currently only chrome.storage is affected since it's the only schema-generated content script API; when bug 287010 is fixed some more APIs are affected, and when bug 1287007 is fixed many addon APIs are affected.

Comment 1

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

The first bug number is missing a "1" - it should be bug 1287010.

chrome.runtime.sendMessage is also affected by this bug.
When I fix this bug, I should not forget to update http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/8eb4fd2c7be150b0aa1b05c0f3707e82dc8f2dc8/toolkit/components/extensions/test/mochitest/test_ext_sendmessage_no_receiver.html#58 (from bug 1295473).

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk move of bugs per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1483958

Comment 3

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

This behavior that was previously classified as a bug is now intentional, see bug 1711570.