1400252 - WebExtensions should not be able to create popup windows without a navbar

Status: NEW

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1385194 +++

(In reply to :Gijs from bug 1385194 comment #12)
> Can you file a followup bug for webextensions to not do this? I don't think
> we should be allowing extensions to create windows without location bars.

Gijs asked me to file a follow-up to bug 1385194, and I agree that we should not allow WebExtension popups to go fully chrome-less. The reasons were discussed to greats lengths in bug 1332447.

If we don't clear this issue now, we risk these chromeless popups being regularly broken by Firefox engineers who don't account for the no-navbar scenario.

What exactly is the harm in showing the disabled urlbar like regular popups do?

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Surfacing this to the webext folks. I'm not sure this is even intentional. What does Chrome do for these popup windows?

Comment 2

[Andy McKay]

Just getting out of the way of the 57 triage for the moment.

Comment 3

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

(In reply to :Gijs from comment #1)
> Surfacing this to the webext folks. I'm not sure this is even intentional.
> What does Chrome do for these popup windows?

When I checked this for bug 1385194, Chrome did indeed show a chromeless popup window as well...

Comment 4

[Andy McKay]

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Comment 5

[Andy McKay]

Yeah. Just because Chrome supports it doesn't mean we have to. 

However I will point out that lots of add-on developers are missing the ability to create panels - there's a ton of bugs on that in different guises. The ability to be able to create a popup window is something we point to as a work around.

Comment 6

[Marco]

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Comment 7

[Marco]

Comment on attachment 8927797 [details]
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Comment 8

[Marco]

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Comment 9

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Marco, your screenshots are showing bug 1408446.