1844044 - Prevent automatic suspension of event page for permissions.request (generally: APIs dependent on user feedback)

Status: NEW

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Forked from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1771203#c4

There are some extension APIs that involve user interaction and can theoretically run forever. These methods should prevent the event page/SW from suspending until they return. For details, see:

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1771203#c4
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1418780#c18

As of writing, the list of APIs in Firefox is:

• identity.launchWebAuthFlow
• permissions.request

Note that this is distinct from bug 1844041: While other bug is about resetting the idle timer upon method invocation, this bug is about stopping the timer from starting for the whole duration of the API calls.

Comment 1

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Note: implementing this would be significantly easier if the timer-based implementation changed to refcounting, see bug 1874406.