Bug 226440 – Blob url downloads fail when triggered from webextension

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKit Misc.

[Victor]

Blob url downloads fail when triggered from a webextension tab. The tab is created with `chrome.tabs.create({ url: /wordlist.html })`. wordlist.html embeds a script with the following code to trigger downloads when clicking on a button:


```
        let saveBlob = new Blob(['content'], { "type": "text/plain" });
        let a = document.getElementById('savelink'); // tab html contains "<a id="savelink" download="download.txt"></a>"
        const blobLink = URL.createObjectURL(saveBlob);
        a.href = blobLink;
        a.click();
```


This opens in the existing tab (replacing its content) and fails with the following safari error:

```
Safari can’t open the page “blob:safari-web-extension://20101d16-cc55-4a3f-a307-a03b6e2df273/07f5a98e-8fbd-409e-9113-58afe3c748c8”.

The error is: “The operation couldn’t be completed. (WebKitBlobResource error 1.)” (WebKitBlobResource:1)
```

I found some related bugs on non-extension pages, e.g https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190351 (usage of target="_blank"), https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211234 (bugs with immediately revoked object urls) ,  The presence of the `target` attribute doesn't seem to matter, and it seems like whatever was fixed in the latter bug doesn't apply to this extension tab case.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/78929424>

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https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/33167/

[EWS]

Committed 283220@main (61868ae02c5f): <https://commits.webkit.org/283220@main>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #33167 and removing active labels.

[EWS]

Committed 280938.310@safari-7619-branch (eb5a1e97b064): <https://commits.webkit.org/280938.310@safari-7619-branch>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #1699 and removing active labels.