diff --git a/toolkit/components/extensions/Schemas.jsm b/toolkit/components/extensions/Schemas.jsm
index b6c3513766fe..c673956e9030 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/extensions/Schemas.jsm
+++ b/toolkit/components/extensions/Schemas.jsm
@@ -1904,8 +1904,33 @@ class IntegerType extends Type {
 }
 
 class BooleanType extends Type {
+  static get EXTRA_PROPERTIES() {
+    return ["enum", ...super.EXTRA_PROPERTIES];
+  }
+
+  static parseSchema(root, schema, path, extraProperties = []) {
+    this.checkSchemaProperties(schema, path, extraProperties);
+    let enumeration = schema.enum || null;
+    return new this(schema, enumeration);
+  }
+
+  constructor(schema, enumeration) {
+    super(schema);
+    this.enumeration = enumeration;
+  }
+
   normalize(value, context) {
-    return this.normalizeBase("boolean", value, context);
+    if (!this.checkBaseType(getValueBaseType(value))) {
+      return context.error(() => `Expected boolean instead of ${JSON.stringify(value)}`,
+                           `be a boolean`);
+    }
+    value = this.preprocess(value, context);
+    if (this.enumeration && !this.enumeration.includes(value)) {
+      return context.error(() => `Invalid value ${JSON.stringify(value)}`,
+                           `be ${this.enumeration}`);
+    }
+    this.checkDeprecated(context, value);
+    return {value};
   }
 
   checkBaseType(baseType) {
diff --git a/toolkit/components/extensions/schemas/manifest.json b/toolkit/components/extensions/schemas/manifest.json
index 10238018e401..597a7c80007d 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/extensions/schemas/manifest.json
+++ b/toolkit/components/extensions/schemas/manifest.json
@@ -578,8 +578,17 @@
       },
       {
         "id": "PersistentBackgroundProperty",
-        "type": "boolean",
-        "deprecated": "Event pages are not currently supported. This will run as a persistent background page."
+        "choices": [
+          {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "enum": [true]
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "enum": [false],
+            "deprecated": "Event pages are not currently supported. This will run as a persistent background page."
+          }
+        ]
       }
     ]
   }
diff --git a/toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_eventpage_warning.js b/toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_eventpage_warning.js
index d09c040b941d..5d7f03b04946 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_eventpage_warning.js
+++ b/toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_eventpage_warning.js
@@ -44,6 +44,20 @@ add_task(async function test_eventpages() {
         "nonExistentProp": true,
       },
     },
+    {
+      message: "testing persistent background page",
+      eventPage: {
+        "page": "event-page.html",
+        "persistent": true,
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      message: "testing scripts with persistent background running as a background page",
+      eventPage: {
+        "scripts": ["event_page_script.js"],
+        "persistent": true,
+      },
+    },
   ];
 
   let {messages} = await promiseConsoleOutput(async () => {
@@ -61,5 +75,5 @@ add_task(async function test_eventpages() {
     {message: /Event pages are not currently supported./},
     {message: /Event pages are not currently supported./},
     {message: /Reading manifest: Error processing background.nonExistentProp: An unexpected property was found/},
-  ]});
+  ]}, true);
 });
diff --git a/toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_schemas.js b/toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_schemas.js
index be0acef4d05c..2ca362135058 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_schemas.js
+++ b/toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_schemas.js
@@ -1739,3 +1739,42 @@ add_task(async function testReturns() {
               "Doesn't throw for invalid result value in release builds");
   }
 });
+
+let booleanEnumJson = [{
+  namespace: "booleanEnum",
+
+  types: [
+    {
+      "id": "enumTrue",
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "enum": [true],
+    },
+  ],
+  functions: [
+    {
+      name: "paramMustBeTrue",
+      type: "function",
+      parameters: [
+        {name: "arg", "$ref": "enumTrue"},
+      ],
+    },
+  ],
+}];
+
+add_task(async function testBooleanEnum() {
+  let url = "data:," + JSON.stringify(booleanEnumJson);
+  Schemas._rootSchema = null;
+  await Schemas.load(url);
+
+  let root = {};
+  tallied = null;
+  Schemas.inject(root, wrapper);
+  Assert.equal(tallied, null);
+
+  ok(root.booleanEnum, "namespace exists");
+  root.booleanEnum.paramMustBeTrue(true);
+  verify("call", "booleanEnum", "paramMustBeTrue", [true]);
+  Assert.throws(() => root.booleanEnum.paramMustBeTrue(false),
+                /Type error for parameter arg \(Invalid value false\) for booleanEnum\.paramMustBeTrue\./,
+                "should throw because enum of the type restricts parameter to true");
+});