Port to Firefox

[n0samu]

Thanks for the fun extension, I love the idea! I took a quick into porting this to Firefox and I think the main obstacle is its use of the offscreen document API, which Firefox doesn't seem to support. Not sure if a background page would be a suitable alternative.

[ChildishGiant]

Could the buttons be stored using storage and then the page just made on load?

[umaxfun]

We reeeeeally need it in Firefox!

[HyperBeast43]

pls

[axe312ger]

Chrome became unacceptable as browser. Pls port to FF

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/

[TheoCGaming]

i second this, i need to steal buttons

[somewhat69]

need this ported to firefox too, agree

[Schoggi0815]

Would also really appreciate a FF version

[arxari-archive]

+1 for Firefox

[Craftzman7]

Would love a Firefox port of this.

[realeatham]

Can people not just comment that they would like it? You can like the issue instead and then no one gets a notification.

[arxari-archive]

More notifications means more attention

[Goldegag37]

we need this. please.

[Goldegag37]

#10 oh no. EDIT: found a port, but there's no releases: button-robber

[n0samu]

They tried pretty much the same thing that I did. They didn't replace the usage of the offscreen document API so it does not work.

[tiagozip]

bump

[Walcriz]

I've managed to port this to firefox if anyone is interested: https://github.com/Walcriz/button-stealer/releases/tag/1.0.3

[n0samu]

Thank you, I'll test it out soon! I see that you're creating a hidden tab instead of using the offscreen document API - I didn't think of doing that. Great way to "polyfill" that API and avoid rewriting much of the extension.

[glepretre]

Will this Firefox version be merged and/or published?

[alifeee]

Will this Firefox version be merged and/or published?

for now, I managed to be install it by downloading and opening the .xpi from https://github.com/Walcriz/button-stealer/releases/tag/1.0.3

[jakeyounglol]

it would also be nice if it was ported to safari

[Walcriz]

Will this Firefox version be merged and/or published?

I wasn't planning on publishing it since I wont be maintaining it. Also merging it would be waay too much work since I have to do some things very differently from the chrome version. So currently you just have to click the .xpi files in releases and allow installation in firefox.

[prochac]

it would also be nice if it was ported to safari

Bruh, why not Internet Explorer?

[jakeyounglol]

it would also be nice if it was ported to safari

Bruh, why not Internet Explorer?

because people actually use safari (especially on monile because it’s the only major browser that supports extensions on ios) and it’s an actively maintained browser, unlike internet explorer.

[Walcriz]

it would also be nice if it was ported to safari

Bruh, why not Internet Explorer?

because people actually use safari (especially on monile because it’s the only major browser that supports extensions on ios) and it’s an actively maintained browser, unlike internet explorer.

Well no one is stopping you from porting it yourself. I haven't looked at how safari extensions are written, and I also own no apple devices so its hard to even attempt. And I doubt it would be easily ported, but I might be wrong. That said I mostly did the firefox port because I was bored which is why I also have no plans on doing much else with it