How to listen to custom events on all windows, bubbling issue?

Question

I\'m trying to listen to custom event \'peakAhBoo\' so I add the event listener to gBrowser and if no gBrowser is present then I add it to aD

Answer 1

ok, now i see what you mean, but according to MDN you need to use this:

document.addEventListener("MyExtensionEvent", function(e) { myExtension.myListener(e); }, false, true);
// The last value is a Mozilla-specific value to indicate untrusted content is allowed to trigger the event

source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Code_snippets/Interaction_between_privileged_and_non-privileged_pages

I tested it and it works!

web page:

    
    



    
Trigger custom event

    

and in privileged code:

function respondToCustomEvent_peakAhBoo(e){
    console.log('g: '+e.target);
}

gBrowser.addEventListener("peakAhBoo", respondToCustomEvent_peakAhBoo, false, true);