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jingyu9575 / service-worker-control

Firefox extension to detect and control Service Workers on websites.
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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needs a whitelist #1

Closed atomGit closed 5 years ago

atomGit commented 5 years ago

interesting extension, but i think it would be more useful (and less hassle) if it kept and editable whitelist of domains, including subdomains

jingyu9575 commented 5 years ago

I've thought about this but did not come up with a good design. What's your use case? Right now I allow the service workers in the popup and it will keep registered in the browser. For other sites, I simply ignore the request icon. Therefore I do not need whitelists or blacklists.

atomGit commented 5 years ago

the use case is for sites that require workers to function, such as regex101.com - in such cases, it would be more convenient to whitelist the domains rather than having to manually allow workers every time they're visited

jingyu9575 commented 5 years ago

There is no need to allow every time; once the service worker is allowed, it will keep registered, until it is manually removed. Are you clearing site data periodically?

atomGit commented 5 years ago

i mean across sessions

jingyu9575 commented 5 years ago

Service workers are not removed when Firefox restarts. Check about:debugging for the registrations.

atomGit commented 5 years ago

the problem here is mass confusion on my part i think :)

i use Site Bleacher to remove workers (and other storage), uMatrix to allow/disallow workers, and i'm confusing part of their functionality with that of your extension

what i was wanting to do is whitelist workers globally in uMatrix and control whether they load with your extension, but i think i was forgetting about Site Bleacher which i can't give up because it's the only ext. that dumps indexedDB storage automatically (upon revisiting the domain) and you can't disable its worker cleaning

sorry for the trouble

jingyu9575 commented 5 years ago

In this case I think the whitelist has to be in Site Bleacher. Even if my extension whitelists everything, after Site Bleacher clears the service workers, the functionalities such as offline loading of regex101.com will still not work.