1515455 - browser.tabs.duplicate is not a function

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Add-ons, defect)

Description

[skeletonxf]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

When attempting to use WebExtensions for Firefox for Android the function `browser.tabs.duplicate` does not exist. I believe this is a bug because this function is listed as supported by Firefox for Android 54+ on MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/duplicate

I have tested this on Firefox for Android v64.0.1 on Android 4.4.4. I believe this problem does not depend on device because I found it after a user left a review for my addon stating that none of the tab duplicating addons they had tried worked on mobile.

I stripped down my WebExtension to a minimal working example and have included the xpi. On desktop clicking the browser action successfully duplicates the active tab and prints "Duplicate worked" to the browser console. 


Actual results:

On Firefox for Android, using WebIDE and a USB to debug "browser.tabs.duplicate is not a function" is printed to the console when clicking the browser action. The tab is not duplicated.


Expected results:

On desktop clicking the browser action successfully duplicates the active tab and prints "Duplicate worked" to the browser console. If the documentation on MDN is correct this should also work for Android.

Comment 1

[skeletonxf]

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Comment 2

[Andrew Swan [:aswan]]

Just setting dev-doc-needed won't help while the bug is still open. Moving this over to Dev Documentation, the browser compatibility needs to be updated as this function is not actually implemented on Android.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.