Open Bug 1844217 Opened 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Background context should be tracked despite script-initiated background unloads (navigation / reload)

Categories

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P2)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
General
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: robwu, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [addons-jira])

Although navigations aren't supported (bug 1286083), they are possible. Even if we want to drop support for navigations, reloads will continue to be supported.

Currently, when a background page navigates, a user-observable result is that it is shown as "stopped" in about:debugging, despite a context being active.

We should track the lifetime of background contexts across reloads.

Severity: -- → S4
Type: enhancement → defect
Priority: -- → P2
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