{"id":8797,"date":"2020-02-10T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2020-02-06T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:39:13","slug":"extensions-in-firefox-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2020\/02\/10\/extensions-in-firefox-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Extensions in Firefox 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2020\/01\/22\/extensions-in-firefox-72\/\">As promised<\/a>, the update on changes in Firefox 73 is short: There is a new <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Mozilla\/Add-ons\/WebExtensions\/API\/sidebarAction\/toggle\">sidebarAction.toggle<\/a> API that will allow you to open and close the sidebar. It requires being called from a user action, such as a context menu or click handler. The sidebar toggle was brought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/u\/ariasuni\/\">M\u00e9lanie Chauvel<\/a>. Thanks for your contribution, M\u00e9lanie!<\/p>\n<p>On the backend, we fixed a bug that caused <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/Add-ons\/WebExtensions\/API\/tabs\/onCreated\">tabs.onCreated<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Mozilla\/Add-ons\/WebExtensions\/API\/tabs\/onUpdated\">tabs.onUpdated<\/a> events to be fired out-of-order.<\/p>\n<p>We have also added more <a href=\"https:\/\/firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org\/toolkit\/components\/extensions\/webextensions\/other.html?highlight=ess#extensionsettingsstore\">more documentation on changing preferences<\/a> for managing settings values with <a href=\"https:\/\/firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org\/toolkit\/components\/extensions\/webextensions\/basics.html#webextensions-experiments\">experimental WebExtensions APIs<\/a>. As a quick note, you will need to set the preference <code>extensions.experiments.enabled<\/code> to <code>true<\/code> to <a href=\"https:\/\/firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org\/toolkit\/components\/extensions\/webextensions\/basics.html#webextensions-experiments\">enable experimental WebExtensions APIs<\/a> starting with Firefox 74.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all there is to see for Firefox 73. We\u2019ll be back in a few weeks to highlight changes in Firefox 74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, the update on changes in Firefox 73 is short: There is a new sidebarAction.toggle API that will allow you to open and close the sidebar. 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