1918162 - Allow use of about pages with openURL trigger in messaging system

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Messaging System, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Meg Viar [:mviar]]

There was a recent request to trigger a message when about:addons is opened via the openURL messaging trigger listener. This bug is to explore enabling this capability and the use of about pages with the openURL trigger listener more broadly.

Comment 1

[Meg Viar [:mviar]]

We'll confirm whether this is still needed after bugs for addons targeting landed (see Bug 1915019 and Bug 1914919)

Comment 2

[Ray Fambro]

Following back up after chatting w/ @Kamyar. Although we still think that this will be useful as a general targeting method, we don’t need to land it in the near future. So we can hold off on it for now.

Comment 3

[Jason Prickett]

it currently doesn't work for about:* pages because they are a part of the spec property in the URI where the host property isn't present, and openURL's matching behavior has an early exit if that is the case.