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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon joelpurra

Right-click page context menu option disappears after some time, in Firefox

Open joelpurra opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments
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Expected behavior

Talkie's context menu item, shown when right-clicking selected text, is available when the user wants to use it.

Actual behavior

  • In Firefox, the Talkie: <selected text here> menu item seems to disappear after a while.
  • Using the browser bar button still works.

Steps to reproduce behavior

  • Leave Firefox running for some time, Talkie disappears from the right-click menu.
  • After how long is unclear -- hours?
  • Might depend on external factors.
    • System resource usage/load?
    • System sleep mode?
    • Certain websites/website features?
    • Other extensions?
  • If extension debugging is enabled, this does not seem to occur -- even after days.
    • Makes debugging hard.
    • Can logs still be extracted without debug mode?

System information

  • Your browser: Firefox
  • Your browser version: v66.0.5 (64-bit)
  • Your operating system: macOS
  • Your operating system version: v10.14.4 (18E226)

Might very well happen on other operating systems.

Additional information

The same, or similar problems, have been reported by users in recent weeks. Perhaps an issue with recent Firefox versions?

joelpurra avatar May 19 '19 14:05 joelpurra

Perhaps it's related to the persistent setting? Firefox only handles persistent pages, thus ignoring the setting. Event pages (non-persistent) is the recommendation for Chromium. Talkie was built to be non-persistent and unloadable, as it should save system resources.

  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/user_interface/Context_menu_items
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/background
  • https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/28b3a7726786a9d1007b8be1659c6bac24311b60/webextensions/manifest/background.json#L56-L63
  • https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/background_pages

Found an MDN page regarding testing/debugging persistent features. It doesn't mention context menus though, so unsure if it applies. Any other ideas?

  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Testing_persistent_and_restart_features

joelpurra avatar May 20 '19 06:05 joelpurra