990220 - Enable navigator.sendBeacon by default on desktop and Android

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Comment 1

[(no longer active)]

(Please add more bugs to the dependency list for things that we need to fix before enabling this by default.)

Comment 2

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

I don't think there's anything preventing us from flipping this on for desktop nightlies.

Comment 3

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Spec is stable enough? /me would really like to see this enabled in order to start warn about
use of sync XHR during unload

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Even if the spec is not stable enough, I think it might be a good idea to unhide and publicize this for non-release builds to allow people to start experimenting with it.

Comment 5

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

The spec has been stable for quite a while. The intent was for bug 936340 to enable sendBeacon by default, so we should just go for it.

Comment 6

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(In reply to comment #5)
> The spec has been stable for quite a while. The intent was for bug 936340 to
> enable sendBeacon by default, so we should just go for it.

Sounds good to me then!

Comment 7

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Attachment: Patch (v1)

I'll file a follow-up for b2g as well.

Comment 8

[(no longer active)]

(Filed bug 990270 for b2g)

Comment 9

[(no longer active)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/0483fe9d0b74

Comment 10

[(no longer active)]

Richard, I'd appreciate if you could send an intent to ship email to dev-platform.  Thanks!

Comment 11

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/0483fe9d0b74

Comment 12

[Richard Barnes [:rbarnes]]

Sent intent to ship message to dev-platform.

Comment 13

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

We will want this in the 31 release notes.

Comment 14

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

I added "navigator.sendBeacon enabled by default" to the release notes. Let me know if you want a better wording.
I will add a link to the documentation once it is available.

Comment 15

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Updated the following pages. Sorry this one slipped through the cracks way back when!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/sendBeacon
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/31