Chrome incompatibilities

Веб расширения разработаны с поддержкой совместимости с расширениями Хрома и Оперы на сколько это возможно. Расширения, написанные для этих браузеров, должны работать в Firefox с минимальными изменениями.

Все же, Firefox на данный момент имеет поддержку только для ограниченного набора функций и API, поддержуемых в Хроме и Опере. Мы работаем над добавлением большей поддержки, но много функций пока еще не поддерживаются и некоторые из них никогда не будут поддерживаться.

Эта статья перечисляет все функции и API, которые полностью поддерживаются в Firefox Developer Edition (на данный момент Firefox 47). Там где функция поддерживается частично, мы указали на проблемные места.

manifest.json функция

Полностью поддерживаемые ключи:

• applications
• browser_action
• default_locale
• description
• icons
• manifest_version
• name
• page_action
• version
• web_accessible_resources

Частично поддерживаемые ключи:

background

Firefox не поддерживает "устойчивое" свойство. Фоновые скрипты остаются загруженными всё время.

commands

Firefox не поддерживает:

• Media keys как сокращение
• global
• специальную комманду _execute_browser_action

content_scripts

Firefox не поддерживает:

• match_about_blank

content_security_policy

Firefox не поддерживает:

• "https://127.0.0.1" or "https://localhost" as script sources: they must be served over HTTPS.

options_ui

Firefox не поддерживает:

• chrome_style

Using options_ui requires a valid value for the applications.gecko.id property.

permissions

Firefox не поддерживает следующие разрешения:

• background
• clipboardRead
• clipboardWrite
• geolocation
• unlimitedStorage

Obviously, it doesn't support permissions for APIs that are themselves not supported.

incognito

Firefox does not support the following incognito (private browsing) modes:

• split

JavaScript APIs

Fully supported APIs

• alarms
• browserAction
  • Relative URLs passed to setPopup() are resolved relative to the caller document, rather than to the extension root
• commands
• contextMenus
• cookies
• i18n
• pageAction
  • Relative URLs passed to setPopup() are resolved relative to the caller document, rather than to the extension root

Partially supported APIs

bookmarks

• Firefox does not support:
  • import()
  • export()
  • onCreated
  • onRemoved
  • onChanged
  • onMoved
  • onChildrenReordered
  • onImportBegan
  • onImportEnded
  • BookmarkTreeNodeUnmodifiable
• Firefox has special bookmarks like "Recently Bookmarked" or "Recently Visited"

contextMenus

• Firefox does not support:
  • the "browser_action" or "page_action" context types

downloads

• Firefox does not support:
  • drag()
  • acceptDanger()
  • setShelfEnabled()
  • onDeterminingFilename
• The saveAs option and values other than "GET" for the method option are not supported by download()

extension

• Firefox does not support:
  • setUpdateUrlData()
• Additionally, the following deprecated properties will not be supported:
  • onRequest
  • onRequestExternal
  • getExtensionTabs()
  • sendRequest()

idle

• Firefox does not support:
  • onStateChanged
  • setDetectionInterval()

Additoinally, queryState() always returns "active" in Firefox, regardless of the current system idle state.

notifications

• Firefox does not support:
  • update()
• Firefox doesn't provide byUser data.

runtime

• Firefox does not support:
  • getPackageDirectoryEntry()
  • reload()
  • requestUpdateCheck()
  • restart()
  • sendNativeMessage()
  • onBrowserUpdateAvailable
  • onConnectExternal
  • onInstalled
  • onMessageExternal
  • onRestartRequired
  • onStartup
  • onSuspend
  • onSuspendCanceled
  • onUpdateAvailable

storage

• Firefox does not support:
  • managed storage area
  • sync storage area
  • getBytesInUse().

tabs

• Firefox treats highlighted and active as the same, since Firefox has no concept of selecting multiple tabs.
• In Firefox, you need the tabs permission if you want to include url in the queryInfo parameter to tabs.query().

• In Firefox, relative URLs passed into tabs.executeScript() or tabs.insertCSS() are resolved relative to the current page URL. In Chrome, these URLs are resolved relative to the add-on's base URL. To work cross-browser, you can specify the path as an absolute URL, starting at the add-on's root, like this:

  /path/to/script.js

• In Firefox, you can't open (using tabs.create), or navigate to (using tabs.update) privileged URLs:
  • chrome: URLs
  • javascript: URLs
  • data: URLs
  • privileged about: URLs (for example, about:config, about:addons, about:debugging)
• Additionally, the following deprecated properties will not be supported:
  • sendRequest()
  • getSelected()
  • onActiveChanged
  • onHighlightChanged
  • onSelectionChanged

webNavigation

• Firefox does not support:
  • onCreatedNavigationTarget
  • onTabReplaced

webRequest

• Firefox does not support:
  • onAuthRequired
  • filtering by windowId and tabId
  • the "requestBody" instruction in opt_extraInfoSpec
• In Firefox requests can be redirected only if their original URL uses the http or https scheme

windows

• Firefox does not support:
  • the focused option in create()
• In Firefox onFocusChanged will trigger multiple times for a given focus change.

Planned APIs

We don't support the following APIs, but plan to, soon:

• Devtools (mostly panels)
• debugger
• omnibox
• permissions

This doesn't mean that these are the only additional APIs we will support, but that they are our current priorities.

Miscellaneous incompatibilities

Optional arguments

URLs in CSS

Firefox resolves URLs in injected CSS files relative to the CSS file itself, rather than to the page it's injected into.

Additional incompatibilities

Firefox does not support using alert() from background pages. Using alert(message) from a background page will cause the Browser Console to be opened and both a line stating "alert() is not supported in background windows; please use console.log instead." and the message will be output to the console.