1380809 - (webext-incognito) [META] manifest incognito feature support

Status: REOPENED

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[John Gruen [:jgruen]]

tracking bug for full support of incognito rules in WebExtensions. Note that Firefox Screenshots would make use of this work.

Comment 4

[Zamar Ac]

Half a year passed, and this extreme safety threat bug was not assigned to anyone. Pls assign to fix within 3 days. On Dec 17, 2017 a complain will be filed with Mozilla President about Andy Mackay regularly refusing to follow up on security threats in web-extensions. This is not a proper way to claim responsibility for web-extensions. Not the first time he refuses to act. I personally believe he should be replaced ASAP.

Comment 7

[Zamar Ac]

Only reporting new and new duplicates of this bug coming from countless users, but no progress whatsoever on fixing the issue. Despite Chrome has all web exts fully blocked in Private Windows. May be there is a need to remind FF devs how it affects their browser popularity and potential of loosing their job due to sharply dropping demand for the Firefox browser.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/StatCounter-browser-ww-monthly-200901-201707.png

Comment 8

[Caitlin Neiman [:caitmuenster]]

(In reply to arnymars from comment #7)
> Only reporting new and new duplicates of this bug coming from countless
> users, but no progress whatsoever on fixing the issue. Despite Chrome has
> all web exts fully blocked in Private Windows. May be there is a need to
> remind FF devs how it affects their browser popularity and potential of
> loosing their job due to sharply dropping demand for the Firefox browser.
> 
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/StatCounter-browser-ww-
> monthly-200901-201707.png

Arynmars, I can understand your concern and your passion for this issue but commenting that developers should lose their jobs in this forum is inappropriate. Please read the Bugzilla Etiquette before you leave another comment: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Comment 9

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

comment 0 here sounds like this was a meta bug, but we have meta bug 1460738, so closing this one.

Comment 10

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

Sorry for the spam.  Changed my mind as we have two buckets of bugs.  The first related to the incognito feature itself, and the other being bugs in various tests/apis related to private browsing mode.  We'll use this bug as the meta for the feature.  The parent meta bug 1460738 will list all bugs related to "improving incognito support"

Comment 11

[afagagtea]

What's the status on this? Having password manager extension in a private window is not fun and a great security risk!
Implement this ASAP!!!

Comment 12

[afagagtea]

Again what is the status on this?

Comment 13

[David Durst [:ddurst]]

As this is tracking bug, the status on this is reflected in the change of dependent bugs.

Comment 14

[juraj.masiar]

I'm testing the incognito experience in Beta 67 with my add-ons and I've noticed one issue - Options page of each add-on will load broken (because of the javascript restrictions in API) - I would suggest to remove the "Options" button for add-ons that are not allowed in Private Brosing mode. I don't think there are add-ons that uses pure html Options page :)

Also, I've noticed that add-ons installed from Private Browsing mode are not implicitly allowed in Private mode, maybe that's expected?

Comment 15

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

(In reply to juraj.masiar from comment #14)

I'm testing the incognito experience in Beta 67 with my add-ons and I've noticed one issue - Options page of each add-on will load broken (because of the javascript restrictions in API) - I would suggest to remove the "Options" button for add-ons that are not allowed in Private Brosing mode. I don't think there are add-ons that uses pure html Options page :)

Can you add a new bug with steps to reproduce? cc me on it.

Also, I've noticed that add-ons installed from Private Browsing mode are not implicitly allowed in Private mode, maybe that's expected?

That is expected.

Best to not use our tracking bug for conversation. If there's an issue just add a bug, we'll triage it.

Thanks!