Waterfox: Open Link in silent tab broken

[Squall-Leonhart]

Can't be sure when this broke, but clicking the relevant context menu item on a link prints "Error: CPOW usage forbidden in this add-on in the browser console"

[Ibuprophen]

Wow! I haven't seen a Cross Process error in a while...

The following link may be helpful for the CPOW errors.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox/Cross_Process_Object_Wrappers

It looks like an add-on may broken by some type of multiprocess compatibility...

~Ibuprophen

[Squall-Leonhart]

E10S compatibility was added in 0.2.5

[Squall-Leonhart]

Also it was working in Firefox 56, and Waterfox 56.0

[grahamperrin]

… was working in Firefox 56, and Waterfox 56.0

Works for me with Waterfox 56.2.5 on FreeBSD-CURRENT. The tab opens as expected and (unless I'm missing something) I don't see anything CPOW-related in the browser console.

Can you share troubleshooting information? Plain text please from about:support

Links

For readers who may be unfamiliar with the extension:

• caa:addon/open-link-in-silent-tab
• https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/open-link-in-silent-tab/

[Squall-Leonhart]

hmm, i seem to have fixed it.

reinstalled the extension straight over the top of the existing on.

[grahamperrin]

Thanks.

E10S compatibility was added in 0.2.5

If issues recur, please test with Waterfox in single-process mode.

Open Link in Silent Tab Compatibility Reports :: Add-ons for Firefox

… was working in … Waterfox 56.0

56.0 took a more careful approach. 56.2.5 defaults to allowing multi-process with extensions that are not compatible with multi-process.