1401110 - content script injection fails for target="_blank"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1374129

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[robbendebiene]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170807000000

Steps to reproduce:

One of my Addon users reported this bug to me:
1. install Gesturefy (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gesturefy/)
2. open: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/steamvr-tracking-lattice-ice40-fpga,35485.html
3. click on a link in the article which will open in a new tab (target="_blank")



Actual results:

4. Gestures now stop working due to some console errors (https://imgur.com/a/gVo90)

for more information: https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues/42

I noticed, that this only happens for websites with the same domain, if the website opens for example twitter in a new tab everything is working fine.

On my system/firefox version it's working fine, and I remember that this bug was already fixed in the past, but it is not working on firefox 55.03


Expected results:

The content script should be injected/Gestures should work.

It's probably because I specified the "match about blank property" in the manifest, but as I already said, this was already fixed a while ago.

Comment 1

[robbendebiene]

This is the old bug I was talking about: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374129
So it seems like it's fixed in FF 56 but not in 55.

Comment 2

[Andy McKay]

This was fixed in Firefox 56 which is in general release and we won't be fixing bugs in Firefox 55. If it's not that bug, please let us know.