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Vimium stops working on google's search results page after restarting browser

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Description

Description:
After fresh install, vimium works fine on all google's pages and browser ones (Allow access to file URLs and Allow access to search page results enabled). After closing the browser and opening it up again - it stops working on aforementioned pages.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Install vimium
  2. Enable Allow access to file URLs and Allow access to search page results in browser extension settings
  3. Restart the browser

Chrome version:

Opera 113.0.5230.32 (Official Build) Stable (64-bit)
Revision c51f2916e4a14157c276fd33c8bfb24155aac1ad-refs/branch-heads/6533@{#2000}
OS Linux
JavaScript V8 12.7.224.18
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/113.0.0.0

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue in Opera on Linux using the listed steps, with the file-URL and search-results permissions enabled. Compare Vimium behavior before and after restarting the browser, focusing on why access to Google pages is lost. Done means Vimium continues working on Google search results and browser pages after a restart.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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