1432837 - Collect metrics for usage of menus.refresh after showing a menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

This is a follow-up to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215376#c151

Bug 1215376 added the ability to modify a context menu after it has been shown. A menu should be updated relatively soon if an extension immediately calls browser.menus.refresh in response to browser.menus.onShown in order to minimize the impact on UX.
But if extensions do things like sending a network request and then trying to show the menu, then the change may be very noticeable.

The purpose of this bug is to make sure that we collect metrics to determine whether the current implementation of menus.refresh is sufficient for common use cases (and in particular not having a negative impact on UX).

Depending on the outcome, the API may be limited (e.g. requiring a dummy menu element to avoid visual shifts at the top-level menu) or extended (e.g. only updating submenus instead of the whole extension menu if only a submenu changes).

Note to myself: There is an sample implementation of telemetry at bug 1353171.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 24 weeks.
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information

Comment 2

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

There is no interest in this any more.