hoverzoom VS webextensions-examples

I will leave this as a gallery of emails with offers to buy extension hoverzoom: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Sidenote: The "collaboration" offers come from time to time even to non-extensions projects, if they are reasonably widely used. E.g. simple tools (rather widely used suite of android apps recently sold).

> Manifest V3 will stop this by limiting what Google describes "remotely hosted code." All updates, even to benign things like a filtering list, will need to happen through full extension updates through the Chrome Web Store. They will all be subject to Chrome Web Store reviews process, and that comes with a significant time delay.

So the author can't think of any other reason for this change other than to "slow down ad blocker updates"

Well how about stuff like this: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Where an extension dev details offers to "monetize" his app and basically perform a bait and switch and make it malicious.

These type of offers are actually quite common. See this[0] and the discussion[1]. I try to stick with only the most popular of extensions in the hope that any malicious changes would be widespread news, but it is still a gamble.

[0] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066680

As a maintainer of a semi-popular chrome extension[1], I receive so many buy-out offers that I started publicly collecting them[2] for everyone to see.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom%20/pccc...

[2] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Also, here's a open source alternative.

I don't want to download a sieve from a russian forum. Hover Zoom+ is working fine.

Hover Zoom+: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/ (this is the open source one, not the old one with malware)

Check out Firefox examples on github, you’ll like it, I’ve had great experience learning from them to add nifty features to my browser:

https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples

This is a place to start https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples.

I downloaded Content script registration repository from MDN webextensions-examples on GitHub.

In some cases it does Banning a user doesn't magically make your bugs go away; Can't get response in Ubuntu #506.

It's pretty straightforward with the provided example.

I tried a couples: for example this one is working perfectly but not printing using console.log https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/main/commands

I believe there are already extensions for that. In fact, there's even one on the Mozilla Developer Network's GitHub called Theme Switcher which is essentially a dropdown menu with all of your themes.

I modified this https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/blob/main/native-messaging/app/ping_pong.py example Python Native Messaging host slightly to point to python3 on the shebang line and pass -u to python3

You dont need much. You can use this https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/discogs-search as a template