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by dotproto 3mo ago
Ctrl+Click / Cmd+Click also opens in a new tab.
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by dotproto 3mo ago
As someone involved in the WebExtensions Community Group who has been (slowly) trying to figure out what, if anything, we should do at the platform level around these use cases, I appreciate you raising and repeating this concern. I'd
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by dotproto 3mo ago
Oh, this is interesting! I assume most of the heavy lifting to identify and filter content is being performed by the content script. In practice have you see any issues with models accessing page content before the extension has been able t
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by dotproto 4mo ago
Do you mean Firefox on iOS? If so, that would require the firefox-ios project to adopt BrowserEngineKit, which is relatively new. Firefox for iOS WebExtension support is being tracked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug
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by dotproto 1y ago
Also pretty easy with Firefox's new profile manager https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-management
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by dotproto 1y ago
Just took a quick glance at your extension and observed that it's currently using the "debugger" permission. What features necessitated using this API rather than leveraging content scripts and less invasive WebExtensions API
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by dotproto 2y ago
Simeon from the Firefox Add-ons team here. Sorry about the rocky experience. I realize this is a bit late for your situation, but earlier this year the source code submission docs were updated with information about the default reviewer bui
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by dotproto 2y ago
Asking as a browser contributor, what do you feel is missing from MV3?
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by dotproto 2y ago
I was about to say "concurrent writes shouldn't be a problem because localStorage is synchronous and JS is single-threaded," but then I started thinking about multiple tabs, WebWorkers, and multi-process browsers and figured
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by dotproto 2y ago
Would love to hear your thoughts on how to improve it ;)
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by dotproto 2y ago
Can you share more about what you find frustrating or confusing about this process?
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by dotproto 2y ago
Chrome extensions are published on Chrome Web Store ( https://chromewebstore.google.com ), not on Google Play.
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by dotproto 2y ago
I don't know exactly what the the person you're replying to had in mind, but support for different parts of the manifest varies (especially in Manifest V3). While it's possible to write a single manifest that works in all bro
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by dotproto 3y ago
To my knowledge no browser supports transferring an extension's user base from one extension to another. If you want your users to switch, the only think you can do is show them a link of where to get the new extension they should inst
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by dotproto 3y ago
Both CWS (Chrome) and AMO (Firefox) supports this. It's part of Chrome's One Stop Support[1] form and Forefox's developer hub UI. At the moment I don't believe any browser has features that notify end users of ownership
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by dotproto 3y ago
> The extension ID is derived from a private key that the developer uploads with the first upload to the app store While what you described is possible, this process isn't required or the typical way an extension ID is generated. Ty
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by dotproto 3y ago
Sounds like literal rent seeking behavior.
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by dotproto 3y ago
> If the idea is that these DNR rules require non-fast-trackable thorough reviews, but dynamically updating them will bypass those thorough reviews, than I am at a lost to understand the logic of treating them as requiring thorough revie
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by dotproto 3y ago
No one does at the moment. The deprecation is on hold, but Chrome has stated that they "will provide at least 6 months between a timeline announcement and any experiments deprecating MV2 features": https://developer.chr
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by dotproto 3y ago
> I wonder if the main obstacle to (actual) cross-browser extensions isn't so much technical but rather political. Normally when browser folk talk about "cross-browser extensions," we're not focusing on the distributa
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by dotproto 3y ago
> the extension APIs are standardised enough that this is actually possible a lot of the time A bit off topic, but as a co-chair of the WebExtensions Community Group[1] (WECG) I'm a bit touchy about the calling WebExtensions "s
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by dotproto 3y ago
> The biggest problem I found is that Chrome Manifest V3 requires background.service_worker (they removed background.scripts), while Firefox Manifest V3 requires background.scripts (they never implemented background.service_worker) It&#x
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by dotproto 4y ago
This was a mistake and has been corrected.
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by dotproto 4y ago
> Absent security issues, what's the value of the last N releases of Chrome? How far do you have to go to get something of value that changed? IMO something of value changes with every release. For example, in the most recent releas
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by dotproto 4y ago
A couple hours ago I added a comment to the bug to describe our current plans[1]. TL:DR; you'll be able to use webRequest.onAuthRequired in MV3. [1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=
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by dotproto 4y ago
Hey, I'm that Simeon/dotproto guy! We discussed Chromium's current plan to support user scripts managers in Manifest V3 during our WebExtensions Community Group (WECG) session at TPAC[1] last week. The notes for that meeting
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by dotproto 4y ago
Hi, Simeon from the Chrome Extensions team here. Clipboard access is one of the browser capabilities that currently requires a document to use. We're planning to address this use case (and others that require DOM) by introducing a new
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by dotproto 4y ago
But … Safari runs WebExtensions on iOS? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...
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by dotproto 5y ago
Hey, Simeon from the Chrome Extensions team here. A lot of other replies talk about libraries and tools; I'd like to focus more on some general guidance. First up, no, you don't need to maintain two completely different code bases
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by dotproto 5y ago
> Note that Apple is charging 15% for small developers ( https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-s... ) - not 30%. Defaults matter. Based on what they've shared so far developers mu

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