1479267 - WebExtension API for profile create, list, delete

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1383077

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrei Petcu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0
Build ID: 20180728220145

Steps to reproduce:

I want to create/list/delete profiles with a WebExtension.


Actual results:

There is no such API for WebExtensions


Expected results:

I would expect at least a create, get (for current profile name), query (to list profiles), and remove a profile. This would be similar to what about:profiles to users but as an API for devs. There is a similar API for containers https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Browser_support_for_JavaScript_APIs#contextualIdentities

Why is this important? When Firefox started shipping Container API, a lot of developers built extensions for creating, switching container tabs and so on.

Chrome's profile manager (Ctrl+Shift+M) has a really nice UI and this is missing from Firefox. If you provide an API then 3rd party developers can implement it in various ways.