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aesqe / firefox-downloads-sidebar

A Firefox web extension that displays a list of your recent downloads in the sidebar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downloads-sidebar/
MIT License
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Open automatically on download start? #9

Open kushagr-m opened 6 years ago

kushagr-m commented 6 years ago

It would be good if the sidebar opened automatically as soon as a download started. (I will look into WebExtensions and try to make a PR for this)

josalhor commented 6 years ago

After reviewing this problem I seem to find the limitation in the API itself.

When an extension that defines a sidebar is first installed, its sidebar will be opened automatically. This is intended to help the user understand that the extension includes a sidebar. Note that it's not possible for extension to open sidebars programmatically: sidebars can only be opened by the user.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/user_interface/Sidebars

I don't think we can't do anything about that :(