1946975 - Add a tabs.Tab type in the tabs API to determine whether a tab is in a collapsed tab group.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[anon]

Steps to reproduce:

In Chrome, checking if a tab group is collapsed requires the chrome.tabGroups API. The 'tabGroups' permission is necessary and a user must accept the 'View and manage your tab groups' permission in a prompt to allow access to this API.

It would be helpful if there was a tabs.Tab type like 'isInCollapsedGroup', so the browser.tabGroups API (when developed) would not be required to determine whether a tab is in a collapsed tab group.

This would be somewhat equivalent to the tabs.Tab type 'hidden', which is accessible without the 'tabHide' permission.

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

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

That sounds reasonable, but given that we don't support the api yet, it would be better to discuss this in the WebExtensions Community Group. I suggest you open a proposal there: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions.