How does omnibox addSuggest work in private mode?

Add-ons Development
1

I tried omnibox with the following code from MDN. When I trying, I temporarily loaded manifest.json from about:debugging. This worked in a normal browser, and typing cs a show a some suggestion.

However, this suggestion feature is not working in private mode. This did not change even if I allowed it to run in a private window. How can I get the omnibox suggestion feature to work in private mode?

Add:
I also tried check “Show search suggestions in Private Windows” option, but that didn’t change the results. I also found that execute the simple console.log function in private mode didn’t work for the onInputChange event.

2

Can you upload a test extension that demonstrates this behavior?

3

Thanks for reply. I’m using below source code. This temporary extension was ran in the following environment:

  • Windows 10
  • Firefox 84.0.2 (64 bit)

manifest.json

{
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "name": "Custom suggestion",
  "version": "1.0",
  "description": "Custom suggestion using omnibox.",
  "background": {
    "scripts": [
      "background.js"
    ]
  },
  "omnibox": {
    "keyword": "cs"
  },
  "permissions": [
    "bookmarks",
    "tabs"
  ]
}

background.js

// ref. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/omnibox/onInputChanged#examples
browser.omnibox.setDefaultSuggestion({
    description: "Type the name of a CSS property"
});

/*
Very short list of a few CSS properties.
*/
const props = [
    "animation",
    "background",
    "border",
    "box-shadow",
    "color",
    "display",
    "flex",
    "flex",
    "float",
    "font",
    "grid",
    "margin",
    "opacity",
    "overflow",
    "padding",
    "position",
    "transform",
    "transition"
];

const baseURL = "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/";

/*
Return an array of SuggestResult objects,
one for each CSS property that matches the user's input.
*/
function getMatchingProperties(input) {
    var result = [];

    for (prop of props) {
        if (prop.indexOf(input) === 0) {
            console.log(prop);
            let suggestion = {
                content: baseURL + prop,
                description: prop
            }
            result.push(suggestion);
        } else {
            if (result.length != 0) {
                return result;
            }
        }
    }
    return result;
}

browser.omnibox.onInputChanged.addListener((input, suggest) => {
    suggest(getMatchingProperties(input));
});

browser.omnibox.onInputEntered.addListener((url, disposition) => {
    switch (disposition) {
        case "currentTab":
            browser.tabs.update({url});
            break;
        case "newForegroundTab":
            browser.tabs.create({url});
            break;
        case "newBackgroundTab":
            browser.tabs.create({url, active: false});
            break;
    }
});
4

Thanks.
You can also zip the complete extension and attach it to your reply.
The Upload icon is the 7th from the left (arrow pointing up)

5

I have attached a zip file that contains the minimal source code to reproduce my problem.

example.zip (1.1 kb)

6

This bug was fixed in Firefox 110 (bug 1779400).