Agenda discussion for public meeting on 2025-01-16

[Rob--W]

This issue is used to collect topic suggestions for our January 16, 2025 meeting. We will stop accepting suggestions ~48 hours before the meeting and the final agenda will be added to the meeting notes doc ~24 hours before the meeting.

The content below this line will be copy-pasted to the agenda section of the meeting.

Agenda

The meeting will start at 3 minutes after the hour.
See issue 531 for an explanation of this agenda format.

• Announcements (2 minutes)
• Triage (25 minutes)
  • Issue 744: Proposal: A DNR rule type to intercept top-document navigation (@gorhill)
  • Issue 746: Proposal: Persistent Authentication (@erosman)
  • Issue 747: API to invalidate BFCache'd webpage with outdated content added by the extension (@tophf)
  • Issue 748: Proposal: Support Extended "browser_specific_settings" (@erosman)
• Timely issues (0 minutes)
  • N/A
• Check-in on existing issues (20 minutes)
  • Issue 19: request: APIs and infrastructure to simplify cross-browser automated testing of extensions (@chrmod)
  • issue 538: Proposal: RegisteredContentScript.workers property to inject WorkerScope(s) (@hackademix)

[chrmod]

Would like discuss the topic of WebExtension Testing and potentially prioritize the work on the W3C spec.

[hackademix]

Would like to re-discuss #538 and check if any browser vendor is willing to sponsor an implementation, given the clarification and lowered bar on matching. Thanks.

[erosman]

Please also consider #748

[dotproto]

@erosman, thanks for calling out the new issue.

Closing in prep for the meeting.