1373621 - Keep Sidebar content in sync while having two Firefox windows open

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[Rémy Hubscher (:natim)]

Using the new web-extension sidebar API, I found out that two sidebars can be open at the same time.

I am looking for a way each time I edit a sidebar to trigger an event to all opened sidebars in other windows to tell them to refresh their content.

I tried to send and event to the background script and ask it to send an event back to the web-extension but it didn't work (each sidebar might have its own background script).

Right now I am polling for changes in storage.local every few seconds but it gets in the way of the UX and some strange behavior occurs.

Any idea?

Comment 1

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

runtime.sendMessage and runtime.onMessage should do this for you.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/runtime/sendMessage

For asking questions, you can find forums, irc channels, etc. in the community support links (bottom of left menu):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions

Comment 2

[Rémy Hubscher (:natim)]

It works thanks.
I was missing the extensionID probably.