[SOLVED] Addon attaches script just fine with jpm run, but not with the actual xpi

Addon attaches script just fine with jpm run, but not with the actual xpi

I'm still fairly new to the addon-sdk and have run into a for me unexplainable problem. So far, I've been using jpm run to test everything - and it all works great. Now, I'm getting close to be finished with what I want to accomplish, so I wanted to give it a test run in a 'normal' browser - mainly to use it over a couple of days to see if everything works as expected.

However, the installing process already throws two error messages:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIURI.hostPort]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/PopupNotifications.jsm :: PopupNotifications_refreshPanel/< :: line 667" data: no] (unknown)

gets thrown twice.

Well, so far, so good (or bad). The toggle-button which my addon adds still shows up. A click on the button opens up a panel which contains a html-page - still working. The panel.html contains a button, and this is the source for my troubles.

If clicked, the button sends a message to my main addon-file:

optionsButton.addEventListener("click", function(){
    self.port.emit("options-clicked");
});

to which index.js listens:

panel.port.on("options-clicked", function () {
    
    tabs.open("./privacyProtector/options.html");
    panel.hide();

    var optionsTab = tabs[tabs.length - 1];
    var worker = optionsTab.attach({
        contentScriptFile: "./privacyProtector/js/internalOptions.js",
    });

    /* send current settings to options */
    worker.port.emit("initialize", createSettingsJSON());
});

now the options.html tab gets opened (and the panel disappears), but it appears as if the contentScriptFile isn't attached. I tried to figure out exactly where the code stopped working, but haven't been able to. A 'console.log()' after

worker.port.emit("initialize", createSettingsJSON());

works fine, however a 'console.log()' at

self.port.on("initialize", function (message) {
    initialize(message);
});

(which is in internalOptions.js) doesn't appear in the console.

Anyway, the browser console reports:

Use of nsIFile in content process is deprecated. NetUtil.jsm:335:12

< unavailable > timers.js:43

which are errors I have no idea what to do with, because all of this is working perfectly fine with "jpm run". Therefore, I'd be grateful for any help at all, because I have absolutely no idea what's going on here.

If needed, I can also post more code, but I figured this post is already long enough as it is.

Thanks!

Edit: I uploaded the code to github. maybe this makes helping me easier.

https://github.com/Azlond/TrackingProtector

The aforementioned code is in data/privacyProtector/js/panel.js, index.js line 66-91, and data/privacyProtector/js/internalOptions.js

Solution

Well, I managed to fix this problem.

Instead of manually attaching the script to the opened tab, I now use pagemod to attach the script whenever the the options page is opened.

var pageMod = require("sdk/page-mod");
pageMod.PageMod({
    include: "resource://protector/data/privacyProtector/options.html",
    contentScriptFile: "./privacyProtector/js/internalOptions.js",
    contentScriptWhen: "end",
    onAttach: sendSettings
});

This way, the options page works perfectly fine. I've encountered a new problem, but I'll ask a new question for it, so that this can be a stand-alone problem.