1533014 - browser.permissions.request does not resolve when requesting origin permissions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1432083

(WebExtensions :: Request Handling, defect)

Description

[nero120]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

In my extension I'm executing:

browser.permissions.request({
  origins: ['http://*/', 'https://*/']
})

from a button click event handler in the browser action pop up. When clicked, the promise is neither resolved nor rejected and no error appears in the console, nothing happens.

Actual results:

Promise not resolved.

Expected results:

Promise should be resolved (and user prompted to grant requested permissions) or rejected.

Comment 1

[nero120]

Just to add, the extension manifest includes the optional permissions:

"optional_permissions": [ 
  "http://*/",
  "https://*/"
]