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Known issues on various versions of Chrome

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Dahan Gong edited this page Jul 15, 2023 · 13 revisions

Here're some issues still existing on the master branch, which are mostly caused by Chrome bugs:

  • If a page in another extension is the preferred Vomnibar page, and the extension is disabled in incognito mode, Vomnibar might break in such a situation, and there seems no way to detect it. So Vimium C has disabled other extension Vomnibar pages in incognito mode.

  • Before ver 41, Chrome lacks some features so parentFrame may fail to find a real parent frame.

  • Before ver 42, Chrome has a flag #enable-embedded-extension-options causing wrong dialog width on high-DPI screens, which can not be worked-around.

  • Before ver 48, Chrome doesn't support touch events on normal pages, so LinkHints' touch option won't take effect.

  • Before ver 49, Chrome has bugs in Window.postMessage if the flag #enable-site-per-process is on, which breaks Vomnibar. Then Vomnibar would only work well on Vimium C Options pages.

  • If an http/file/... Vomnibar page is preferred, then there're some cases where it breaks, such as on some websites with very strict Content Security Policies (CSP), so users may need to wait about 1 second to let Vimium C retry the inner page.
    Before ver 50, such vomnibar webpages won't work because Chrome lacks some features, so Vimium C will use the inner page directly.

  • Since ver 56, Chrome does not apply content settings (at least images) on file:// URLs. Currently, no effective ways have been found (up to Chrome 69).

  • Before ver 68, Chrome has a bug on sandboxed pages without an allow-scripts permission in their CSP. So HUD will always be visible in order to solve some browser issues on Chrome from ver 52 to 67.
    While before ver 52, all functions of Vimium C will be broken on such pages.

  • When ver 64 and 65, Chrome always cleans console logs if only Vomnibar is opened, and there's nothing we can do for it.

  • When ver 69, Chrome disables requestAnimationFrame on some sandboxed pages, so Vimium C can not scroll them smoothly.

  • Before ver 72, Chrome doesn't provide any method to detect how many navigation historys a page has, so "a large number" + "key for goBack / goForward" may fail silently.

  • When ver 83 (also 80 and 81 if #cross-origin-isolation), Chrome breaks Vomnibar on pages under an HTTP header of Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: cross-origin.

  • Currently, both Chrome and Firefox won't trigger event listeners on dark mode or reduced motion changing on a extension's background, so Vimium C can not respond on such system settings changes at once, and has to recheck them every minute.

  • When ver 92, 93 and 94, Chrome on Linux (but not Chromium itself) passes wrong KeyboardEvent info to pages and extensions, if the keyboard layout is not QWERTY-English. This triggers unexpected Vimium C commands and can not be fixed.

  • On all versions of Chrome, a malformed page may hook user actions before Vimium C running, if only https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1261964 is not fixed.

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