Allow Extensions to work with Web Panels

Bedoncity

Currently, Web Panels seem to ignore/be ignored by extensions that would normally interact with website. For instance, uBlock Origin won't block any ad when opening a website in a web panel.

Thus, it'd be welcomed to allow Extensions to work with Web Panels.

yes.aravind

Yes, but with an option to turn it off. I currently use it for extension-free browsing.

pafflick

To be more specific, some extensions work in web panels.

freedomfries

Tampermonkey doesn't work in web panels either though Violentmonkey does.

Omen_20

Some websites I use often but can't stay logged into, would be nice as web panels. Since I can't use LastPass with them, it's easier to just create a new tab and then tile with the other tab I use at the same time.

LonM

I tried to make myself an extension which would block certain sites from working at certain times of day, to prevent myself becoming distracted.

It works. But only in tabs. And my main distractions were in panels to begin with. 🙄

To be more specific about what works and doesnt:

Attempting to block a chrome webRequest with this filter:

types: [
        "main_frame",
        "sub_frame"
    ]

fails in a panel, but succeeds in a tab.

If that filter isn't in place, background resources won't load in a panel, but any static HTML in a panel will still load. This is a decent enough solution for my needs, but it's not exactly clean.

My guess is that extensions can't access the main request of a page because the context it is in isn't the context of a tab, but is in the context of another extensions. Specifically, the "vivaldi browser" extension, so unless an extension had a specific permission to access that it would fail. The background resources that I mentioned could be blocked are evidently happening in a tab-like context which allows them to be blocked.

So it would be nice to see this fixed one day.