Issue 4579 - Ignore runtime.lastError caused by wrapper

polyfill.js

 /*
  * This file is part of Adblock Plus <https://adblockplus.org/>,
  * Copyright (C) 2006-present eyeo GmbH
  *
  * Adblock Plus is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
  *
  * Adblock Plus is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
@@ skipping 25 matching lines @@
     "tabs.query",
     "tabs.reload",
     "tabs.sendMessage",
     "tabs.update",
     "webNavigation.getAllFrames",
     "webRequest.handlerBehaviorChanged",
     "windows.create",
     "windows.update"
   ];
 
+  // Since we add a callback for all messaging API calls in our wrappers,
+  // Chrome assumes we're interested in the response; when there's no response,
+  // it sets runtime.lastError
+  const portClosedBeforeResponseError =
+    // Older versions of Chrome have a typo:
+    // https://crrev.com/c33f51726eacdcc1a487b21a13611f7eab580d6d
+    /^The message port closed before a res?ponse was received\.$/;
+
   function wrapAPI(api)
   {
     let object = browser;
     let path = api.split(".");
     let name = path.pop();
 
     for (let node of path)
     {
       object = object[node];
 
@@ skipping 15 matching lines @@
       // callback to the list, it won't match the signature of the function and
       // will cause an exception.
       if (typeof args[args.length - 1] == "undefined")
         args.pop();
 
       return new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
       {
         func.call(object, ...args, result =>
         {
           let error = browser.runtime.lastError;
-          if (error)
+          if (error && !portClosedBeforeResponseError.test(error.message))
           {
             // runtime.lastError is already an Error instance on Edge, while on
             // Chrome it is a plain object with only a message property.
             if (!(error instanceof Error))
             {
               error = new Error(error.message);
 
               // Add a more helpful stack trace.
               error.stack = callStack;
             }
@@ skipping 36 matching lines @@
 
   // Workaround since HTMLCollection, NodeList, StyleSheetList, and CSSRuleList
   // didn't have iterator support before Chrome 51.
   // https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=401699
   for (let object of [HTMLCollection, NodeList, StyleSheetList, CSSRuleList])
   {
     if (!(Symbol.iterator in object.prototype))
       object.prototype[Symbol.iterator] = Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator];
   }
 }