In the last post, I showed how to make the Chrome extension working in Firefox. In this post, I’m going to talk about things I wish I knew before building a cross-browser extension. Latest Edge browser is compatible with Chrome The Chrome extension just works with Edge locally without any changes. This is also the … [Read more…]
Last post I showed how to create a Chrome browser extension that allows a web app to communicate with a native app. However, that solution only works with Chrome and Edge. In Firefox, you’d get a “TypeError: window.chrome is undefined” exception. I find that the web app cannot send request directly to the background.js in … [Read more…]
We have a feature at work that requires the web app to communicate to a native app on the user local machine. I find that Chrome extension can send native message to a native app installed on the user machine. Basically, the web app will send a message to the extension, which then sends it … [Read more…]