1397249 - Add WebExtensions API to hide context menu items

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement, P5)

Description

[08xjcec48]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170824053622

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox is going to kill the current version of extensions such as https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/menu-filter/ and https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/s3menu-wizard/ . They have a total of about 117 000 users.

Please add the required web extension API for their developers to be able to at least hide context menu items from Firefox 57+.

Comment 1

[Oleksandr]

What is the sense of this API?

Comment 2

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to Oleksandr from comment #1)
> What is the sense of this API?

Allow users to customize context menus.

Comment 3

[Caitlin Neiman [:caitmuenster]]

This has been added to the agenda for the October 17 WebExtensions APIs triage. If you're interested in this bug, please feel welcome to attend! 

Here's a few things about the triage to keep in mind: 

* We normally spend 5 minutes per bug
* The more information in the bug, the better
* The goal of the triage is to give a general thumbs up or thumbs down on a proposal; we won't be going deep into implementation details

Relevant Links: 

* Wiki for the meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Contribute/Triage
* Meeting agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oUFGD57_NGbtV5y8k_yIS3GN8pFO3M_K1SWQhzlq6Ho/edit#heading=h.hhpni8ijl0wx
* Vision doc for WebExtensions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Vision

Comment 4

[cperivol]

In the [minutes(?)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oUFGD57_NGbtV5y8k_yIS3GN8pFO3M_K1SWQhzlq6Ho/edit#) of the meeting 

> - If it’s in a sidebar or a popup, this seems reasonable 
> - Otherwise, generally against this.

It's not clear to me what this means. I used to be a heavy user of vimperator, is there any chance we will get that level of control over the UI from webextensions?

Comment 5

[Andy McKay]

The suggestion is to allow this to happen in sidebar and browser_actions though, we should file a new bug for that. Those are parts of the browser that are controlled by the WebExtension.

(In reply to cperivol from comment #4)
> It's not clear to me what this means. I used to be a heavy user of
> vimperator, is there any chance we will get that level of control over the
> UI from webextensions?

Based on my limited knowledge of vimperator and the bugs I've seen in Bugzilla, you will not get that level of control over the UI.

Comment 6

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

Closing all open bugs with the [design-decision-denied] whiteboard flag.