Example of generating a manifest for both Firefox and Chrome

[kumar303]

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A key point of the WebExtensions API is building cross-platform extensions. However, the manifest is one file that differs significantly between Firefox and Chrome so it's inevitable that you'll need to ship a separate manifest for each.

It would be great to provide an example of this, perhaps one similar to this method of using webpack to copy a platform specific manifest. The downside to this method is that many details are duplicated between each manifest. A better approach would be to render a manifest using a template. I think webpack would support that.

[SerkanSipahi]

@kumar303 Sure? look at this https://developer.mozilla.org/de/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json for "webextensions api" ! or am I wrong?

However, the manifest is one file that differs significantly between Firefox and Chrome so it's inevitable that you'll need to ship a separate manifest for each.

[kumar303]

Well, they don't differ significantly but as I recall there are certain things you could put in a Firefox manifest that will throw errors (or at least warnings) in Chrome. One example is the gecko ID.

[SerkanSipahi]

@kumar303 which properties (manifest.json) for firefox are mandatory? is there any resources?

[yfdyh000]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifest

[SerkanSipahi]

@yfdyh000 i saw this tables (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json) but overlooked the differs. Thank you :)

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