Identify Tab That Made Request In Firefox Addon SDK

I'm using the Firefox Addon SDK to build something that monitors and displays the HTTP traffic in the browser. Similar to HTTPFox or Live HTTP Headers. I am interested in identifyi

Solution 1:

You have to keep using the internal packages. From what I can tell, getTabForWindow() function in api-utils/lib/tabs/tab.js package does exactly what you want. Untested code:

var tabsLib = require("sdk/tabs/tab.js");
return tabsLib.getTabForWindow(domWin.top);

Solution 2:

The API has changed since this was originally asked/answered... It should now (as of 1.15) be:

return require("sdk/tabs/utils").getTabForWindow(domWin.top);

Solution 3:

As of Addon SDK version 1.13 change:

var tabsLib = require("tabs/tab.js");

to

var tabsLib = require("sdk/tabs/helpers.js");

Solution 4:

If anyone still cares about this:

Although the Addon SDK is being deprecated in support of the newer WebExtensions API, I want to point out that

var a_tab = require("sdk/tabs/utils").getTabForContentWindow(window)

returns a different 'tab' object than the one you would typically get by using

worker.tab in a PageMod.

For example, a_tab will not have the 'id' attribute, but would have linkedPanel property that's similar to the 'id' attribute.