Agenda discussion for public meeting on 2024-02-15

[Rob--W]

This issue is used to collect topic suggestions for our February 15, 2024 meeting. We will stop accepting suggestions ~48 hours before the meeting and the final agenda will be added to the meeting notes doc ~24 hours before the meeting.

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The meeting will start at 3 minutes after the hour.
See issue 531 for an explanation of this agenda format.

• Announcements (2 minutes)
• Triage (15 minutes)
  • (nominated issues here)
• Timely issues (10 minutes)
  • (nominated issues here)
• Check-in on existing issues (20 minutes)
  • (nominated issues here)

[Rob--W]

The following issues were part of the previous meeting's agenda but haven't been discussed. Due to the huge list if would be nice if we can cover most of them async and discuss the remaining ones in the meeting:

• Follow up on Issue 402: Provide a mean to discriminate initiators and destinations belonging to a local (private) network
• Issue 454: Add a new manifest key to include a origin trial token (anton?)
• Issue 519: Proposal: Event.addListener should accept an interface.
• Issue 517: sidePanel API: lifecycle events
• Issue 520: Increase maximum total size (QUOTA_BYTES) for storage.sync
• Issue 521: sidePanel API: sidePanel.close() and sidePanel.toggle()
• Issue 522: Proposal: Give extensions easy access to MediaSession
• Issue 523: API limitation: content scripts URL matches and History API, Navigation API, BFCache
• Issue 527: chrome.scripting.executeScript doesn't resolve/reject for frozen state tabs
• Issue 528: Inconsistency: chrome.downloads.open() return value
• Issue 533: Enhance browser.storage.local to allow storing binary data directly
• Issue 534: Inconsistency with indexedDB in browser extensions

[oliverdunk]

I'd like to nominate #540 for the timely issues since we are looking to implement it in response to feedback on the browser.userScripts API.

[ghostwords]

#302 is still an unsolved regression in Manifest V3. It is troubling to see official Chrome docs claim "There are currently no open issues considered a critical platform gap".

[patrickkettner]

@ghostwords it is not considered critical - as it a platform stopping feature. I believe it is very important, but it is used by an extraordinarily small amount of extensions. It is a bug, and it is being actively worked on. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40727004 is the over all work. The first pieces already landed, and the feature should be shipping in the near future.

[ghostwords]

used by an extraordinarily small amount of extensions

??? This is used by Privacy Badger, probably uBlock Origin, and the entire category of link cleaning extensions.

From #302 (comment)

Many other extensions (list dated 2018) rely on the same mechanisms.

[tophf]

extraordinarily small amount of extensions

Used by tens of millions of people if not more. Unless your team starts to challenge these weird ideas that you regularly propagate, there'll be a catastrophe when MV2 is finally removed in Chrome with no way to re-enable it.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40727004 is the over all work

No, it's about a different specific problem, not related to #302. There are many such issues with no solution in ManifestV3. If you're a devrel where "dev" refers to us you might want to revisit all these reports here in WECG and in crbug.

[bershanskiy]

I'd like to nominate the following issues for timely consideration:

• Add a new manifest key to include a origin trial token #454
  • We have a concrete API proposal
  • Chromium Canary already ships with parsing code for this key, would be nice to have a spec and ship this feature in Chromium Beta 123 or 124
• Expose SHA256 value of DownloadItem #401
  • We have a concrete API proposal with a few stylistic ambiguities
  • I have an implementation locally which I haven't submitted for CL just waiting for API proposal finalization
• Inconsistency: Alarms API time slipping #433
  • We determined timer delay after suspend to be a bug
  • We fixed it in Chromium 123 (source)
  • Firefox still has this delay
  • Safari never had this delay
  • We should probably make sure we are on the same page and close the issue right away

[dotproto]

Closing this issue in preparation for today's meeting.