I’m experiencing an issue while trying to add a Google Chrome extension from VS Code. When I click “Load unpacked” and attempt to load the folder containing my code, the folder appears empty. This results in an error stating:

I’ve written a browser extension and I want to publish it as open source. Is it safe to submit the manifest.json as is, including the key member?

In the contentScript.tsx file I track storage changes, and if storage has changed, I show a specific component. But, when changing storage, this works for all tabs that are generally open, but I need to do it only for the active tab. How can this be implemented?

I’ve been developing a Chrome Extension using Manifest V3 and need to ensure my backend stays synced with the Chrome Extension version. To achieve this, I use a backend version endpoint, which I call at certain points during the app’s lifecycle. If the server version differs from the client version (if (serverVersion !== clientVersion)), I then call chrome.runtime.requestUpdateCheck().

I’m building a Chrome extension, manifest version 3, and grappling with declarativeNetRequest.

I’m essentially building the concept of “go-links”, where the (Chrome) user can type something like “go/roadmap” into their URL bar, a Chrome extension will notice that this is a go-link since it starts with “go/”, then do a lookup to see which real URL the “roadmap” go-link should point to.

Although there are multiple articles on stack overflow articles that explain this, however, it has been of no help as of now. I want to send a message from my background.js file to the content-script.js file whenever I open the history tab on the browser. Below is the code for that:

i’m building a chrome extension that is used for screen and video capturing. Curently I’m having issuing with capturing both user’s camera and screen at the same time. I had to capture the user’s camera and display it to them while the recording of screen is going on.

I built a custom search engine and I want to distribute it via chrome extension. The only thing I want this extension to do is to add a new search engine with a keyword shortcut. I don’t need anything else only adding a new search engine.
Is there any way to do so with a chrome extension?

So my gf is workin on a project where they gotta create an extension but she ran into a problem so I was hoping to find a solution here