1473851 - Firefox for Android: browser.tabs.getCurrent() returns 'undefined' in first tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(WebExtensions :: Android, defect, P3)

Description

[CoolCmd]

Attachment: [e-mail]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180621125625

Steps to reproduce:

1. install the attached extension to Firefox for Android version >= 60
2. the tab with address 'moz-extension://.../coolcmd.html' and with word 'OK' is opened
3. close all tabs except one from step 2
4. close Firefox
5. open Firefox
6. switch to first tab (from step 2)


Actual results:

the page contains the word 'FAIL', because browser.tabs.getCurrent() returns 'undefined'.

refresh the page. method is still returns 'undefined'.

this bug prevent my extension from working. :(



Expected results:

the page should contain the word 'OK'.

Comment 1

[CoolCmd]

extensions for Android - an experimental thing that is not supported, and no one fixes bugs?

the reported bug is serious, because it does not have a workaround.

Comment 2

[gwarser]

Duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410749 ?

Comment 3

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

We have a passing test for this scenario: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/0c97a6410ff018c22e65a0cbe4e5f2ca4581b22e/mobile/android/components/extensions/test/mochitest/test_ext_tabs_getCurrent.html