Misleading instruction

[devoxyz]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_manifests

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_manifests#windows

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

" In all the examples, <name> is the value of the name property in the manifest." is misleading making people thing the manifest in question is the extension manifest (manifest.json) while it should ben the name value from the native messaging manifest (mywebextension.json)

What did you expect to see?

" In all the examples, <name> is the value of the name property in the native messaging manifest."

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/cant-get-native-messaging-example-to-work-attempt-to-postmessage-on-disconnected-port/121764

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

MDN metadata

Page report details

• Folder: en-us/mozilla/add-ons/webextensions/native_manifests
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_manifests
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/mozilla/add-ons/webextensions/native_manifests/index.md
• Last commit: 5f76b99
• Document last modified: 2024-11-22T16:43:48.000Z

[digvijayabhishikth]

Hi Can I work on this.

[hamishwillee]

@digvijayabhishikth Sure. The way this works is you create a PR and in the description you write the line below to create an association back to this issue. Then others will see someone is working on it.

Fixes #38204

[digvijayabhishikth]

Hi @hamishwillee Thank you for your prompt response. I created a PR #32865. Does this work accordingly or is there still a gap from my end.