Closed Bug 1418016 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

WebExtensions functionality for service pages

Categories

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement)

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

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1371786

People

(Reporter: vseleznv, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20171015215539

Steps to reproduce:

With old XUL addons, it was possible to use addons with service pages such as about:* pages. It was convenient with addons like Vimperator.


Actual results:

With modern WebExtension API, no addon can work in either local or remote service page.


Expected results:

While this new behavior is for security purpose, it can provide some mechanism to make, for example, trusted addons to work with service pages.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → WebExtensions: General
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
The best discussion of why we don't allow content scripts on about:* pages is in bug 1371786.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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