Building browser extensions
These are resources that I reference and guides that I follow while developing browser add-ons/extensions. Hopefully this garden will be helpful to you along the way!
Resources
Permalink to “Resources”- How to install temporary add-ons in Firefox (MDN)
- Icons for Chrome extensions (chrome.com)
manifest.jsondocumentation (MDN)- Sample build script (GitHub)
Guides
Permalink to “Guides”How to add to browser while developing
Permalink to “How to add to browser while developing”Chrome
Permalink to “Chrome”- Go to
chrome://extensions - Enable "Developer mode"
- Select "Load unpacked"
- Select the project directory
Firefox
Permalink to “Firefox”- Go to
about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox - Select "Load Temporary Add-on..."
- Select the project directory