Category Archives: Chromium extension
Track Firefox Extension Installation and Usage Statistics Using Google Analytics
Browser extension developers often want to know how many people have downloaded their work and are actually using them. They may also want to know how often their users interact with the extensions, like accessing options/preferences etc. Although entities behind … Continue reading
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Tagged Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Gecko, Google Analytics, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, add-on, browser, cookie, extension
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Using localStorage in Firefox Extensions for Persistent Data Storage
HTML5 introduced the ‘Web Storage‘ specification, which aims to provide a method for web developers to store data persistently on users’ local file system. By using the ‘localStorage’ object, key-value pairs can be stored (as strings) and persist through browser … Continue reading
Posted in Chromium extension, JavaScript, Mozilla extension
Tagged Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Gecko, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Webkit, add-on, browser, extension, localStorage
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Accessing Operating System Clipboard in Chromium (Chrome) Extensions
Earlier this year, Webkit disabled clipboard access of web pages by default for security reasons (see this changelog and this bug report). Programming-wise, this means good old document.execCommand(‘Copy’) and document.execCommand(‘Paste’) will always return false. This is indeed quite understandable, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Chrome, Chromium, JavaScript, browser, clipboard, extension
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