Timothy Hatcher

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icon company @apple icon location Spokane, WA icon location Safari / @WebKit Engineer at Apple working on Extensions. Co-chair of the W3C Web Extensions Community Group. Creator of Web Inspector and Colloquy.

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Safari support for `web-ext run`

Hello from the Safari team! This is an area we are interested in improving since we added the Web Extension conversion tool. On the topic of auto-reload, Safari supports this...

webextensions.api.i18n.getUILanguage - doesn't work on safari 14

Are you seeing this still? Does Safari UI actually reflect the UI languages or are the strings still en-US?

webextensions.api.runtime.onInstalled - Not working on Safari

Safari does support the `chrome.runtime.onInstalled` and `browser.runtime.onInstalled` events. Are you not seeing them fired? Please [file a bug with Apple](https://feedbackassistant.apple.com) if that is the case. Thanks!

WebUSB on extension service workers

We likely would not want to do it just for extensions, without WebKit supporting it in general for the web. Extensions can already use native messaging to implement feature like...

Add a screenshot timeline to the timelines panel. Screenshots are captured automatically every second during recording.

FWIW, we are removing the concept of Profiles soon. Everything will be a Timeline. I think a Timeline makes sense for this, considering we will be a few optional Timelines...

Track runtime.getFrameId() feature request

Yes, Safari and some version of Firefox supports this, IIRC.

Clarify "Only supports explicit" for cookies.sameSiteStatus for Safari

@rebloor I don't know what this note originally meant. We can remove it.

webextensions.api.menus.onClicked - full tab data missing in Safari

@rebloor This can be closed. Safari Technology Preview 192 and later should have this fix.