Extension not visible in toolbar when the browser history is disabled

Add-ons Development
#1

Hello,

a few weeks ago we received feedback from one of our users that our extension is not working on Firefox 34. I checked it and the extension is working fine on this version of Firefox. Anyway I found the problem that the extension is not visible in the toolbar when the history of the browser is turned off.

I don’t think that our users should change their browser preferences in order to use the extension. Because of this I am trying to find a solution for this problem. I don’t know what is causing this, in my extension permissions (package.json) block I am using only cross-domain-content to gain access to the API with which the extension is communicating.

My extension is using the following modules from the Addons SDK: cookies, i18n, tabs, storage, context-menu and simple-prefs.

I would like to see your thoughts and suggestions how to fix this. Thanks!

#2

When the browser history is disabled, the browser in private mode.

So you have to add to package.json a key that allows your addon to work in private browsing mode.

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#3

Yes, this solved my problem.
Thank you @noitidart

#4

Cool :slight_smile: Can you share what you did, so we can all learn please.

#5

I Just added the private-browsing property in my package.json as you suggested

"permissions": {
    "private-browsing": true
},
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