webextensions-examples

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Changed for manifest version 3 and compatibility to Chrome and CCleaner browsers

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### Description I changed the "beastify" extension to 1. to run with manifest version 3 2. to make compatible with Chrome and CC cleaner browsers ### Motivation The changes demonstrate...

gum1900

Fix the example with Firefox on macOS when managed storage isn't available.

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When managed storage isn't available (i.e. : using Firefox 122 on macOS), the example code throws an exception while trying to restore the value from managed storage and never proceeds...

Dalzhim

Firefox Load temporary addon not working

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Firefox version: 116.0.3 Ubuntu 22.04 the standard borderify addon is not working. Reproduce steps: 1. git clone borderify code 2. in Firefox, select menu "Add-ons and Themes" >> "Debug Add-ons"...

stzdzyhs

MV3 example for getting data from page/content script/activeTab context into action / popup

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### What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete? It doesn't seem like there is a concrete example of an extension that gets text/data from the page (`activeTab`) using a background...

wesinator

Update execCommand use in context-menu-copy-link-with-types

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[context-menu-copy-link-with-types](https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/context-menu-copy-link-with-types) uses a content script because when the example was written execCommand didn't work in background pages; now they do so the example should be updated to call execCommand from...

rebloor

native-messaging app example: provide non-contrived example for each platform

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### What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete? The native messaging example provides a contrived app that bounces a message back as follows: https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/main/native-messaging/app This example is useless in the...

minfrin

[examples.json](https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/blob/9433f842d6295db366c399df752332d78a9cc859/examples.json) lists all samples plus relevant extension APIs in `javascript_apis`. But there are several extension APIs with significant functionality in its manifest keys. By significant, I mean not just because...

Rob--W

This repo has an `.eslintrc`, added in #244: https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/blob/main/.eslintrc.json ... but it is stuck in 2017 and it doesn't appear to be enforced (evidenced by the plenty of failures when...

Rob--W

Illustrative function name

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updateActiveTab has ambiguous meaning, most prominent of which doesn't mean what we are actually trying to do. ### Description updateActiveTab has ambiguous meaning, most prominent interpretation of which is not...

s-c-p

native messaging example: port disconnects without an error

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### What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete? the code example does not run on two different OS' and the documentation does not explain why. ### What did you expect...

epragalakis