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Bug at loading URLs to images

I think that I've found a bug in the add-on SDK. When I try to load a tab doing something like this:

             var t = tabs.open({
                 url: linkURL,
                 inBackground: true,
                 onReady: closeTab(this)                 
             });

And the URL is an image. The onReady event is never fired.

Is that the expected behaviour?

Thanks

Solution

  • I'm not sure whether this counts as a bug but you should probably file a bug report to see what the developers think about it. The problem is that the SDK waits for the DOMContentLoaded event to recognize that the tab is ready - but Gecko doesn't fire this event for image documents. The SDK could use a web progress listener instead, these work regardless of the document type.