1578292 - Preserve title and URL of zombified tabs for Webextension API

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[nathanielmbeaver]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open several tabs and wait long enough for some to be zombified, then run a Webextension such as Save Tab URLs or Save tabs on Android.

Both addons use the browser.tabs.query Webextension API to save the titles and URLs of the tabs to a file, which is especially convenient when there are too many tabs open.

Actual results:

Zombified tabs have no title and URL "about:blank".

Expected results:

Zombified tabs have their original title and URL.

When only a few of the currently open tabs have a title and URL, the Webextensions are considerably less useful.

To be clear, I am not requesting that tab zombification be reduced or disabled. Rather, I am requesting that zombification not have the side effect of making the tab title and URL inaccessible to the Webextension API.

Comment 2

[o lu]

Is queryObj.discarded = true the solution?

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

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