firefox-addon-webextensions

Install a personal firefox web extension permanently

May 29, 2023 by Tarik

Navigate to the folder where your extension is located. You can build it in the usual way using web-ext: web-ext build You can install this ZIP file permanently in Firefox by going to about:addons and dragging this file into the tab. In order for this to work, you need to set xpinstall.signatures.required to false in … Read more

onclick or inline script isn’t working in extension

January 26, 2023 by Tarik

Chrome Extensions don’t allow you to have inline JavaScript (documentation). The same goes for Firefox WebExtensions (documentation). You are going to have to do something similar to this: Assign an ID to the link (<a onClick=hellYeah(“xxx”)> becomes <a id=”link”>), and use addEventListener to bind the event. Put the following in your popup.js file: document.addEventListener(‘DOMContentLoaded’, function() … Read more