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Upgraded to manifest v3.

Open sun opened this issue 5 months ago • 0 comments

Problem

  • The ColumnCopy extension cannot be installed in Google Chrome anymore.

Proposed solution

  1. Upgrade the extension to manifest v3.

Notes

  • This PR gets the extension working again (tested in Google Chrome).
  • Only minimum required changes, no code cleanups or other modifications.
  • Given that Clipboard.writeText() is widely available now, I simplified the code to just use it instead of the clipboardBridge in an offscreen document.

Known issues

  • Reloading the extension triggers the warnings (but seemingly not affecting the functionality) — fix suggestions welcome (might be covered by the tutorial linked below):
    Unchecked runtime.lastError: Cannot create item with duplicate id copyColumn
    Unchecked runtime.lastError: Cannot create item with duplicate id copyTable
    

Resources

  • https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/extension-manifest-converter
  • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate
  • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/api-calls#replace-unsupported-apis
  • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/to-service-workers#move-dom-and-window (clipboard)
  • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/concepts/messaging
  • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/offscreen
  • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/manifest/content-security-policy
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/content_security_policy

Tutorials

  • https://www.coditude.com/insights/chrome-extension-manifest-v3-a-migration-guide/
  • https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-extensions-samples/blob/main/functional-samples/cookbook.offscreen-clipboard-write/background.js
  • https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-extensions-samples/blob/main/api-samples/contextMenus/basic/sample.js
  • https://stackoverflow.com/a/79530265/811306

Fixes #35

sun avatar Aug 04 '25 18:08 sun