this fixes gorhill#67

Author: gorhill

js/background.js

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ var HTTPSB = {
 
     // record what chromium is soing behind the scene
     behindTheSceneURL: 'http://chromium.behind.the.scene',
-    behindTheSceneTabId: 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF,
+    behindTheSceneTabId: 0x7FFFFFFF,
     behindTheSceneMaxReq: 250,
 
     // Popup menu

js/start.js

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ function onUpdatedTabsHandler(tabId, changeInfo, tab) {
     // Ensure we have a url stats store and that the tab is bound to it.
     var pageStats = pageStatsFromTabId(tab.id);
     if ( !pageStats ) {
-        return;
+        pageStats = bindTabToPageStats(tab.id, pageUrl);
     }
 
     // Chrome webstore can't be injected with foreign code, following is to
@@ -173,10 +173,15 @@ load();
 
 /******************************************************************************/
 
-// Virtual tab to collect behind the scene traffic: we want to know what is
-// going on in there.
+// rhill 2013-11-24: bind behind-the-scene virtual tab/url manually, since the
+// normal way forbid binding behind the scene tab.
+// https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/67
 
-bindTabToPageStats(HTTPSB.behindTheSceneTabId, HTTPSB.behindTheSceneURL);
+(function(tabId, pageUrl) {
+    var pageStats = createPageStats(pageUrl);
+    HTTPSB.pageUrlToTabId[pageUrl] = tabId;
+    HTTPSB.tabIdToPageUrl[tabId] = pageUrl;
+})(HTTPSB.behindTheSceneTabId, HTTPSB.behindTheSceneURL);
 
 /******************************************************************************/
 

js/tab.js

@@ -305,10 +305,17 @@ function bindTabToPageStats(tabId, pageUrl) {
     if ( !pageStats ) {
         return undefined;
     }
+
     // console.debug('bindTabToPageStats > dispatching traffic in tab id %d to url stats store "%s"', tabId, pageUrl);
-    unbindTabFromPageStats(tabId);
-    HTTPSB.pageUrlToTabId[pageUrl] = tabId;
-    HTTPSB.tabIdToPageUrl[tabId] = pageUrl;
+    // rhill 2013-11-24: Never ever rebind chromium-behind-the-scene
+    // virtual tab.
+    // https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/67
+    if ( tabId !== HTTPSB.behindTheSceneTabId ) {
+        unbindTabFromPageStats(tabId);
+        HTTPSB.pageUrlToTabId[pageUrl] = tabId;
+        HTTPSB.tabIdToPageUrl[tabId] = pageUrl;
+    }
+
     return pageStats;
 }