Closed Bug 1215065 Opened 9 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Extensions should be able to add tabs to about:addons

Categories

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P5)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
General
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: gkrizsanits, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [design-decision-denied][triaged][intent-to-close]) 

      No description provided.
Flags: blocking-webextensions-
Whiteboard: triaged
Whiteboard: triaged → [design-decision-needed][triaged]
This is a pretty rare thing I know that Greasemonkey does it though. We've got ways to add in stuff to the add-on page and add-ons can generate their own page.

I think that providing the ability to run content scripts on privileged pages as documented in bug 1304021 might be of more use, although that bug is currently aimed at some more privileged add-ons.
Component: WebExtensions: Untriaged → WebExtensions: General
Flags: blocking-webextensions-
Priority: -- → P5
Whiteboard: [design-decision-needed][triaged] → [design-decision-needed][triaged][intent-to-close]
This use case seems limited, the only one I know of is Greasemonkey although other extensions may. 

WebExtensions can add their own preferences using options_ui, create a new tab or window or use a browser_action. With so many other ways to do it, the value of doing this seems limited.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Whiteboard: [design-decision-needed][triaged][intent-to-close] → [design-decision-denied][triaged][intent-to-close]
(In reply to Andy McKay [:andym] from comment #3)
> the only one I know of is Greasemonkey although other extensions may. 

Stylish (user-style manager) does this as well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylish/
Resolution: FIXED → WONTFIX
Blocks: 1334174
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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