989527 - Windows.on(open) event is not triggered for all the Window Open

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

I tried a sample in addon-sdk and found the following behaviour.

Main.js:

var windows = require("sdk/windows").browserWindows;
for each (var window in windows) {
  console.log(window.title);
}
console.log(windows.length);
windows.on('open', function(window) {
  console.log(windows.length+"open");
});

Condition:
 
1) On opening the new window from File->New Window menu.
2) Right click the existing mozilla window in Task Bar and click New Window
3) Open a new window from Start Menu.

Only on condition 1) I am able to receive the window open, but for 2) and 3) I am not receiving the same. Since I am new to SDK development can you help me further.

Comment 1

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Note: This was reported in the mailing list

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mozilla-labs-jetpack/jv4dH6KOdf4

Comment 2

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

lots of other bugs with similar/related symptoms:

Bug 922956 - Tabs ready event not firing when calling window.open on Firefox 24 

Bug 942286 - tabs module tabs.on('activate') does not fire when Firefox Options->Tabs->Open New Windows in New Tab instead is unchecked (edit) and new window is opened or new tabs are created that way

Bug 939496 - tabs.on('open') fires when window is closed

even one from earlier today:

Bug 989288 - Firefox Addons SDK is not receving any events from windows opened via window.open 

(and probably a few others)


i'll let you decide on which ones should be marked as duplicates, and/or dependents Erik.

Comment 3

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

(In reply to Tomislav Jovanovic [:zombie] from comment #2)
> lots of other bugs with similar/related symptoms:
> 
> Bug 922956 - Tabs ready event not firing when calling window.open on Firefox
> 24 
> 
> Bug 942286 - tabs module tabs.on('activate') does not fire when Firefox
> Options->Tabs->Open New Windows in New Tab instead is unchecked (edit) and
> new window is opened or new tabs are created that way
> 
> Bug 939496 - tabs.on('open') fires when window is closed
> 
> even one from earlier today:
> 
> Bug 989288 - Firefox Addons SDK is not receving any events from windows
> opened via window.open 
> 
> (and probably a few others)
> 
> 
> i'll let you decide on which ones should be marked as duplicates, and/or
> dependents Erik.

I don't think any of these are dups of this bug.

Comment 4

[Jordan Santell [:jsantell] [@jsantell]]

Possibly related to window.open events

Comment 5

[Ben McCann]

This may be fixed. Can you guys retest please?

I'm not entirely sure I understand what the "Task Bar" and "Start Menu" are, but I clicked a link from the list of bookmarks under the URL bar and it worked.

Comment 6

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

TabCenter is running into this in a particularly heinous way.  If you click on any of the links at http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/unicodeset.jsp they will load in a new window (in the default JPM profile, that is.  I'm not sure why JPM is changing the browser.link.open_newwindow pref, tbh), and since we don't get notified about those, we don't get a chance to move the tabs over to the side, and everything looks broken.  :(

Comment 7

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399562