622500 - add an api for adding apis to web content

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Some code in F1 for doing this:

https://github.com/mozilla/f1/blob/develop/extensions/firefox-share/src/modules/injector.js

Comment 1

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

This seems to be a wanted feature as multiple guys are currently trying to do that thought page-mod API.

Having a custom API to do that could improve security control we have over this kind of practices. Whereas it's way harder to ensure that developers are not going to introduce security holes when using page-mod to do that!

One guy on the gougle group:
https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-jetpack/t/5d71f5d2502b12f2
And one other on IRC.

Comment 2

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

This looks like bug 641552 - Provide hook for adding APIs to window.navigator

Though I'm not sure if you want just navigator or not.

Comment 3

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This looks like bug 641552 - Provide hook for adding APIs to window.navigator
> 
> Though I'm not sure if you want just navigator or not.

It's actually already possible to add APIs to 'window' (https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/base/ConsoleAPI.manifest is an example of how the 'window.console' object is added), just not easily (and securely) possible to add window.navigator APIs. Bug 641552 is specifically about the latter.

Comment 4

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Marking anything that potentially looks like a feature request as "enhancement", sorry for the bugspam. :)

Comment 5

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

This'll probably be better as a Feature Page at this point than a bug.