Currently this defaults to 5 hours (based on the code here). You can override this by launching chrome with the extensions-update-frequency command-line parameter, which is the frequency in seconds. And you can go to chrome://extensions, tick the Developer mode checkbox at the top right, then press the Update Extensions Now button Chrome docs doesn’t specify … Read more
The problem is that you are violating manifest version 2’s content security policy. To fix it all you have to do is get rid of inline script, in this case your background page. Turn it into a background script like this: manifest.json “background”:{ “scripts”: [“background.js”] }, background.js chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(activeTab){ var newURL = “http://stackoverflow.com/”; chrome.tabs.create({ url: newURL … Read more
You can now leverage Google Chrome’s storage API to do this as well. Unlike localStorage, this is accessible from content scripts as well. // Somewhere in your manifest… { “permissions”: [ “storage” ] } // Usage: // PERSISTENT Storage – Globally // Save data to storage across their browsers… chrome.storage.sync.set({ “yourBody”: “myBody” }, function(){ // … Read more
Inject a script into the page you want to get the source from and message it back to the popup…. manifest.json { “name”: “Get pages source”, “version”: “1.1”, “manifest_version”: 3, “description”: “Get active tabs or element on that pages source from a popup”, “action”: { “default_title”: “Get pages source”, “default_popup”: “popup.html” }, “permissions”: [ “scripting”, … Read more
The following method registers an application to a URI Scheme. So, you can use mycustproto: in your HTML code to trigger a local application. It works on a Google Chrome Version 51.0.2704.79 m (64-bit). I mainly used this method for printing document silently without the print dialog popping up. The result is pretty good and … Read more
Remove popup from your browser_action section of the manifest and use background pages along with browser Action in the background script. chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) { alert(‘icon clicked’)});
Easy youtube-dl example on macOS (in the command line Terminal; Windows supported too): # List variants (resolutions/bitrates) $ youtube-dl -F https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/MI201109210084_1/m3u8s/f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa.m3u8 [generic] f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa: Requesting header [generic] f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa: Downloading m3u8 information [info] Available formats for f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa: format code extension resolution note audio-English_stereo mp4 audio only [en] 628 mp4 320×180 628k , avc1.42c00d, video only 928 mp4 … Read more
It seems unlikely that this is possible or will ever become possible, check this: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=112277 which says: “We only allow explicit devtools opening.”
The CRX file itself can be directly downloaded from https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&prodversion=[PRODVERSION]&acceptformat=crx2,crx3&x=id%3D[EXTENSIONID]%26uc [PRODVERSION] is the version of Chrome, which must be 31.0.1609.0 at the very least, and [EXTENSIONID] is the ID of the extension (New in 2018) acceptformat=crx2,crx3 instructs the server to also respond with extensions in the CRX3 format (instead of 204 No Content when the … Read more
There is a very helpful extension to work with both localStorage and chrome.storage that I recently discovered, that works as a Dev Tools panel. Storage Area Explorer I did not write this, but it was suggested by the author on some other SO question.