1411603 - Impossible for WebExtension to detect when FF has done restoring tabs from previous session (new API request)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20170926190823

Steps to reproduce:

My extension needs to make sure there is one particular tab always open.


Actual results:

When Firefox restores tabs from previous session, it's sometimes done **after** my WebExtension's background script has started.

So if I call browser.tabs.query from my background script, it's going to return nothing, because WebExtension has been loaded before FF restored all tabs.


Expected results:

We need an API (event) that fires when FF has finished restoring all tabs.
It could be named "onTabsRestored", "onAllTabsRestored", "onSessionRestored", "onRestored", I'm not sure which one would suit the best.

Current workaround is to delay browser.tabs.query call with window.setTimeout, but it's hacky solution and I think not always guarantees success.

Comment 1

[Andy McKay]

See also: bug 1396399

Comment 2

[Andy McKay]

Sorry, got the wrong bug in comment 1, should have been bug 1378459.

Comment 3

[Robert AB]

Is Bug 1413263 a duplicate of this bug (Bug 1411603)?