Agenda discussion for public meeting on 2026-01-15

[Rob--W]

This issue is used to collect topic suggestions for our January 15, 2026 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)
  • WECG mid-year meeting
• Triage (15 minutes)
  • PR 934: Add runtime.getDocumentId() proposal
  • PR 932: Update runtime.onLoadedReason to match runtime.OnInstalledReason
  • Issue 930: Align browsers on user activation for extension API: allow auxclick and contextmenu DOM events
  • Issue 931: Opt-in Mechanism for Structured Clone Serialization and JSON Fallback Considerations
  • Issue 935: Limits on lengths of strings passed to WebExtension APIs
• Timely issues (10 minutes)
  N/A
• Check-in on existing issues (20 minutes)
  • Issue 338: Inconsistency: runtime.onMessage Promise return
  • Issue 422: Inconsistency: limits on browser.alarms.create()
• Housekeeping (5 minutes)
  • issue tags
  • filenames for proposals

[carlosjeurissen]

A few nominations from my side.

Triage

PR: 934: runtime.getDocumentId()
PR: 932 and Issue 353 Lifecycle events: lifecycle events

Check-in existing issues

Issue 338: Inconsistency: runtime.onMessage Promise return, seems we can close this

Housekeeping

issue tags

To keep the status tags clean, I suggest we only add edge if the implementation of edge differs in any way. Thus removing implemented: edge from: #601 and #890
Potentially renaming the implemented: chrome label to implemented: chromium

Proposal file names

Currently there is no single syntax to use for the proposal documents. Agreeing on a specific syntax, like underscores or dashes, would reduce inconsistencies and improve expected file names.

[bershanskiy]

Alarm name length limit

We should spend a minute or at most two minutes on #422. Since the last update in 2023, Chrome added a histogram to track extension alarm names (link). Perhaps, the histogram had already collected some data (from Chrome 144 Beta).

General approach to establishing a limit for strings passed to WebExtension APIs

I filed #935 to formulate steps needed to determine optimal limits.

[Rob--W]

Meeting concluded, I will export meeting notes and create a new agenda issue.