2012310 - Firefox still expects to find native messaging manifests at $HOME/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts on Firefox 147.0.1 (Linux)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2005167

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Manan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install an extension with native messaging capabilities (Linux)
2. Place the native messaging manifest at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts
3. Send message from the browser

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:

Firefox should look inside $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts for the manifest and execute the application specified in the path field.

If the manifest is placed at $HOME/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts everything works as expected.

MDN, in fact, documents this correctly, but, given that Firefox 147 on Linux now respects the freedesktop XDG base directory specification, this behaviour should be changed.

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

[Manan]

Duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2005167