I write a Mozilla Jetpack based add-on that has to run whenever a document is loaded. For "toplevel documents" this mostly works using this code (OserverService = require('observer-service')
):
this.endDocumentLoadCallback = function (subject, data) {
console.log('loaded: '+subject.location);
try {
server.onEndDocumentLoad(subject);
}
catch (e) {
console.error(formatTraceback(e));
}
};
ObserverService.add("EndDocumentLoad", this.endDocumentLoadCallback);
But the callback doesn't get called when the user opens a new tab using middle click or (more importantly!) for frames. And even this topic I only got through reading the source of another extension and not through the documentation.
So how do I register a callback that really gets called every time a document is loaded?
Edit: This seems to do what I want:
function callback (event) {
// this is the content document of the loaded page.
var doc = event.originalTarget;
if (doc instanceof Ci.nsIDOMNSHTMLDocument) {
// is this an inner frame?
if (doc.defaultView.frameElement) {
// Frame within a tab was loaded.
console.log('!!! loaded frame:',doc.location.href);
}
else {
console.log('!!! loaded top level document:',doc.location.href);
}
}
}
var wm = Cc["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"].getService(Ci.nsIWindowMediator);
var mainWindow = wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");
mainWindow.gBrowser.addEventListener("load", callback, true);
Got it partially from here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_School/Intercepting_Page_Loads