1528604 - (mult_sessions_API) API to manage multiple sessions at the same time

Status: REOPENED

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Robert AB]

WebExtension API, giving session manager extensions the ability to manage multiple sessions at the same time, could be based on one of two alternative Session Restore bugs: Bug 1528598 (mult_sessions1), or Bug 1524948 (mult_sessions2).

Please, check these two alternative bugs related to Firefox build-in Session Restore for more details:

• Bug 1528598 (description + comments 1-6),
• Bug 1524948 (description + comments 1-6).

The major benefits of this future - operations that session manager WebExtensions will be able to perform:

• session(s) could be added or removed to/from current set of sessions opened in the browser;
• different sessions could be saved independently from each other and
• the names of opened sessions should be remembered by extension, and these names should be suggested by extension during manual saving of session.

Comment 1

[John L. Galt]

The biggest part of this API would have to be the ability to maintain isolation between sessions, much like the addon Multi-Account Containers does, so that there would not be collisions between different sessions logging in to the same site with different credentials.

Robert, would that be a separate bug related to this? Right now I think that just mentioning it here ris good enough, as this is a RF new API....

Comment 2

[Robert AB]

(In reply to John L. Galt from comment 1)

The biggest part of this API would have to be the ability to maintain isolation between sessions, much like the addon Multi-Account Containers does, so that there would not be collisions between different sessions logging in to the same site with different credentials.

Yes, isolation between sessions/windows (by using containers) should be a part of this API as proposed in Bug 1524959, which is in dependency tree of Bug 1528598, Bug 1524948 and Bug 1528604. The isolation between sessions/windows is also mentioned in Bug 1528598 comment 6 and Bug 1524948 comment 6.

This "multiple sessions API" should include all futures described in description and comments 1-6 for Bug 1528598 and Bug 1524948 (and bugs mentioned there). In summary, multiple sessions API (Bug 1528604) should include futures described in:
=> Bug 1528598 or Bug 1524948
=> Bug 1524955
=> Bug 1524959
=> Bug 1235231

Robert, would that be a separate bug related to this? Right now I think that just mentioning it here ris good enough, as this is a RF new API....

Let's wait with creating the bug you mentioned. We can discuss this here (Bug 1528604), and in Bug 1524959 for now.

Comment 3

[Robert AB]

This bug was not fixed at all. So why this bug was suddenly marked as RESOLVED FIXED?

Comment 4

[David Durst [:ddurst]]

Whoops, that's a filing mistake on my part. In my triage eagerness I set it to P5 and resolved it.