1614675 - browser.runtime.onSuspend is undefined

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: Extensions API, defect)

Description

[o.marce]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

tried to set a onSuspend listener :
browser.runtime.onSuspend.addListener(clearReminders);

Actual results:

Error message : TypeError: browser.runtime.onSuspend is undefined

Expected results:

listener registered as defined in :
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/runtime/onSuspend
that is referenced from :
https://thunderbird-webextensions.readthedocs.io/en/68/index.html

Comment 1

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

The page you linked to states that the event is not supported in Firefox. That means it's also not supported in Thunderbird.