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activeTab permission not granting temporary host permission #163
Description
Was testing Asana and ran into a problem with chrome.scripting.executeScript.
The extension's manifest registers activeTab and scripting permissions which should allow the background script to executeScript into the active tab. However, the extension also registers host_permissions:
"permissions": [
"cookies",
"activeTab",
"scripting",
"storage",
"contextMenus",
"tabs",
"clipboardWrite"
],
"host_permissions": [
"https://*.asana.com/*",
"https://mail.google.com/*"
],When I click the browser action, a scripting.executeScript call is made which only works for asana and mail.google pages. All other pages get an error:
[1829990:0728/110812.404317:ERROR:extensions_browser_client.cc(72)] Extension Error:
OTR: false
Level: 2
Source: chrome-extension://khnpeclbnipcdacdkhejifenadikeghk/background_bundle.js
Message: Uncaught (in promise) Error: Cannot access contents of url "https://www.google.com/". Extension manifest must request permission to access this host.
ID: khnpeclbnipcdacdkhejifenadikeghk
Type: RuntimeError
Context: chrome-extension://khnpeclbnipcdacdkhejifenadikeghk/background_bundle.js
Stack Trace:
{
Line: 0
Column: 1
URL: chrome-extension://khnpeclbnipcdacdkhejifenadikeghk/background_bundle.js
Function: (anonymous function)
}
This should not happen since activeTab should essentially give temporary host permission to the site.
This does seem like a Electron issue but I figured I'd bring it up here first as you have way more knowledge regarding extension support in Electron :)
Activity
Kilian commentedon Jul 29, 2025
duplicate of #122