1395199 - idle.OnStateChange / idle.IdleState does not support "locked" value in Firefox

Status: NEW

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[taylor]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Per the documentation[1] Firefox does not support the "locked" value for idle.OnStateChange. This can be reproduced by locking the computer and observing that it does not return the "locked" value.


Actual results:

No event is generated when the computer is locked.


Expected results:

idle.OnStateChanged should return a "locked" value when the computer is locked.

Comment 1

[taylor]

This is the first bug I have submitted to bugzilla, so please feel free to provide feedback so I can submit better bugs in the future. Thanks.

Comment 2

[Andy McKay]

Does Firefox know when the computer is locked, or would that have to be added to Firefox so we can expose the API?

Comment 3

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

(In reply to Andy McKay [:andym] from comment #2)
> Does Firefox know when the computer is locked, or would that have to be
> added to Firefox so we can expose the API?

A quick look implies the latter.

Comment 4

[sean.kaim]

Documentation for idle.IdleState (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/idle/IdleState) does not that it supports "locked" as a value, but methods to return this appear that they do not support "locked". 

I did some quick tests in both 56 and 57 on Windows 10 using the example documented here in idle.onStateChanged (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/idle/onStateChanged).

Thanks!

Comment 5

[brandonadavis]

I believe that as a result, the locked -> active transition is also not supported.  I was in need of a "wake" event to find out when FF resumed from sleep, but no such event is fired.

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

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

Comment 7

[beyer]

Any word on Firefox adding support for a idle.IdleState of locked?

Comment 8

[kevinlee324]

Will this be added? An extension I rely on (Bitwarden) has this in Chrome but not Firefox. Would be a nice to have

Comment 9

[Enzo]

Any update on it? How can I help?

Comment 10

[RainbowTables]

(In reply to kevinlee324 from comment #8)

Will this be added? An extension I rely on (Bitwarden) has this in Chrome but not Firefox. Would be a nice to have

+1

Comment 11

[sps]

Would like see this addressed as well since it has been over 8 years since this issue was reported. Also Firefox remains the only mainstream browser without this feature, and this has been the case for many years and nearly 80 versions. Thank you!