1511807 - Firefox Web-extension Popup window closes when I switch to another Program running on my OS (Example: Microsoft Word)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect)

Description

[Abhishek Chomal]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Step1: Open a Web Extension Popup window.
Step2: 'Alt' + 'Tab' to any other program.



Actual results:

Web-extension popup window closes.


Expected results:

I have a long running process for which I want to keep my popup window of web extension open and simultaneously be able to switch to other programs.

This behaviour is present is Google Chrome Extensions, so I reckon Firefox would have the same behaviour as well.

I haven't been able to find a way to do this. Is this functionality missing in Firefox ?

Comment 1

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

I have confirmed that the described reproduction in Nightly v65.0a1, Beta v64.0 and Release v63.0.3 in Windows 10 and Mac OS.
I do not know whether this is actually a valid issue. I will leave this decision to a webextension developer.

Comment 2

[David Durst [:ddurst]]

This is working as expected.