Closed Bug 1365183 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Remove clipboardRead from the list of Webextension supported permission

Categories

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
General
Version:
55 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: rappazf, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36 OPR/44.0.2510.1449 Steps to reproduce: Since reading the clipboard is not possible from the content script of an webextension addon, see https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/reading-the-clipboard/15372/9 The clipboardRead permission should be removed from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/permissions
Component: Untriaged → WebExtensions: General
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Flags: needinfo?(amckay)
Removing the permission isn't the right answer here, fixing the code so that it works is the way to go. There's some bugs for this, like bug 1364708. If you've got a specific use case or issue, please file a bug on that.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(amckay)
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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