1370382 - Webextension API for global UI interaction

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1332447

(WebExtensions :: Developer Tools, defect)

Description

[nicolas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36




Expected results:

I would like to build an extension for current and future versions of firefox that as a similar behaviour as the hide_navigation_bar and hide_tabbar existing extension.

I extracted the following code from these extensions : 
gBrowser.setStripVisibilityTo(false);
var navbar = document.getElementById("nav-bar");
navbar.style.visibility = 'collapse';

This code is not possible to implement with web extensions and it is no more possible to create legacy extensions.

Could the API be enriched with the same behaviour that allows to hide various parts of firefox ?

Regards,

Comment 1

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

We will not be hiding the nav-bar, but there's already a bug 1332447 to hide the tab strip.