1774425 - Periodic error notification: Type error for parameter options (Unexpected property "origins") for browsingData.remove.

Status: RESOLVED MOVED

(WebExtensions :: Developer Outreach, defect)

Description

[Kevin Locke]

With Firefox Nightly (build 20220615093700) I periodically receive the following desktop notification:

Error!
Type error for parameter options (Unexpected property "origins") for browsingData.remove.

I determined that the error notifications are being caused by the Cookie AutoDelete add-on. Steps to reproduce:

1. Launch Firefox.
2. Install Cookie AutoDelete add-on.
3. Switch to a tab displaying a website (e.g. https://www.mozilla.org)
4. Click the Cookie AutoDelete button on the toolbar and select Clean->Clean Cache for this domain (or IndexDB, Plugin Data, or Service Workers. Issue does not occur for Cookies or LocalStorage)
5. Observe that a desktop notification is produced with the error message quoted above.

mozregression Pushlog: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=91037708e4e5ef580ae14ffa6f22fd0d34df6a5f&tochange=4f8d91c60287e5944f8c24ec3e89482779d9db49 suggests it was regressed by Bug 1772905. I don't see how that could be the case, but I've confirmed multiple times that the issue occurs with 4f8d91c60287e5944f8c24ec3e89482779d9db49/20220614193135 and does not occur with 91037708e4e5ef580ae14ffa6f22fd0d34df6a5f/20220614191043.

Comment 1

[Justin Tracey]

Developer has confirmed it's because they're using InstallTrigger to detect UA: https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/issues/1409#issuecomment-1156788240

Comment 2

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

I reproduced the issue on the latest Nightly (103.0a1/20220616190155) under Windows 10 x64 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Cleaning the cache for a domain does display the mentioned error notification.

I’ve also tested the latest Beta (102.0b9/20220616185542) and Release (101.0.1/20220608170832) under the same platforms, but the issue does not occur on those browser versions i.e. cleaning the cache for the domain as per the STR does not display an error notification.

For more details, see the attached screenshot depicting the issue occurring on Nightly.

Comment 3

[Alex Cornestean]

Attachment: Nightly - error notification.png

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Setting Regressed by field after analyzing regression range found by mozregression in comment #0.