Agenda discussion for public meeting on 2025-10-23

[Rob--W]

This issue is used to collect topic suggestions for our October 23, 2025 meeting. We will stop accepting suggestions ~48 hours before the meeting and the final agenda will be added to the meeting notes doc ~24 hours before the meeting.

The content below this line will be copy-pasted to the agenda section of the meeting.

Agenda

The meeting will start at 3 minutes after the hour.
See issue 531 for an explanation of this agenda format.

• Announcements (2 minutes)
  • AFDS in Cyprus, October 23—24
  • TPAC is coming up! Suggest topics in WECG at TPAC 2025 #843 or tag that issue in comments on other issues.
  • WEWG charter draft is being discussed in [wg/webextensions] Web Extensions Working Group strategy#146 and Simeon is iterating on revisions in Apply revisions requested in w3c/strategy#146 charter-drafts#711.
• Triage (15 minutes)
  • PR 885: Correct iconVariants and colorSchemes casing.
  • PR 883: Proposal: initial_permissions and initial_host_permissions Add mention to NotificationOptions
  • Issue 888: Discuss adding i18n.setAcceptLanguages and i18n.appendAcceptLanguage
  • Issue 889: Cache web extension byte code
  • Issue 890: Standardize document id
  • Issue 891: scripting.exectuteScript does not work in tabId === -1
  • Issue 892: Real estates for accessible communication with the user
  • Issue 893: Web request tainting (Collusion/Lightbeam)
• Timely issues (10 minutes)
  • Issue 873: Add specification for externally_connectable
• Check-in on existing issues (20 minutes)
  • (nominated issues here)

[Rob--W]

I've added some topics from the previous meeting that was not discussed due to time constraints (#886, original agenda was at #875).

[chrmod]

Can we check status of:

• Enhance browser.storage.local to allow storing binary data directly #533 - looks like implemented on all platforms
• Proposal: Allow extension contexts to set forbidden headers in fetch() API #786 - any progress?
• Proposal: action.default_area=navbar and action.default_area=hidden #198 - during WECG Meetup 2025, Chrome team expressed that showing extension icons by default is something they may consider

[chrmod]

Would like to re-open:

• Discuss limits applied to storage.session API #350 - Higher limits for session storage would help to decrease startup time on service worker restarts. In case of Ghostery extension, 20mb would do the job.

[chrmod]

For discussion:

• Cache web extension byte code #889
• Standardize document id #890
• scripting.exectuteScript does not work in tabId === -1 #891
• Real estates for accessible communication with the user #892
• Web request tainting (Collusion/Lightbeam) #893

[Rob--W]

Meeting concluded. Some topics did not fit in the allotted time; these have been moved to the next meeting; #895.