Closed Bug 1403086 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

At least part of the WebExtensions should be loaded first before any content when restarting the browser after an update

Categories

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1378459

People

(Reporter: clement.lefevre, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: nightly-community, Whiteboard: [mozfr-community])

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: When user restart the browser following an update, it happens the content is downloaded, loaded and rendered too quickly and before WebExtensions are loaded. Some of those addons are supposed to catch requests and content and act on them, blocking some of them and so on (NoScript, uBlock origin, uMatrix and many others). However those are loaded after pinned tabs and currently focused tabs are loaded resulting in content that shouldn't have been loaded that actually was (ads, trackers and so on). At least addons working on requests, content rendering and so on should *always* be forced to load first to avoid that. Discriminating by permissions requests might be a possibility to don't slow down the (re)start to much. In some specific situations, this could even lead to some security issues which is why I check the box, but I'm unsure this is enough to be considered as one, so feel free to uncheck it if you think it's overreacting doing so. Bug was experienced on macOS 10.9 if this can have any impact on it.
Is this a known issue?
Flags: needinfo?(amckay)
Group: toolkit-core-security
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(amckay)
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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