1855677 - tabs.captureVisibleTab() not working in manifest v3 for firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Neelabh]

Attachment: sample file for showing the issue

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

While migrating my addon to manifest v3, I am not able to execute method tabs.captureVisibleTab(), even after adding all the premissions as mentioned in the docs.
Here is my manifest for permission looks like:
"permissions": [
"downloads",
"cookies",
"tabs",
"activeTab",
"storage",
"menus",
"contextMenus",
"notifications",
"unlimitedStorage"
],
"host_permissions": [
"<all_urls>"
],

Actual results:

captureVisibleTab method is undefined.

Expected results:

tabs.captureVisibleTab() should not be undefined after adding the requied permissions in mv3.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

A correct component seems to be (Firefox) Extension Compatibility. If incorrect, please set the right one.

@Neelabh: Could you please explain how I should use the attached file in order to reproduce the issue?

Thank you for your contribution!

Comment 3

[Neelabh]

Hello Daniel,
On discussing on community forum I came to know that we need to provide the option permission manually after which this seems to be working fine and I am able to execute this method.
It's just that with MV3 we need to do this extra permission step.
Thanks for your reply I think this bug can be closed.

Comment 4

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Closing this report based on the last comment.