webext-active-tab

WebExtension module: Track activeTab permission; automatically inject content scripts

The main use case is to ship your extension without host_permissions and have the user invoke the extension on click on any website.

Alternatively, consider using webext-permission-toggle and webext-dynamic-content-scripts to permanently receive access to certain hosts and automatically register content scripts on it.

Install

npm install webext-active-tab

Usage

This package exports various utilities, just import what you need.

• on-active-tab - Watch when tabs receive activeTab
• register-active-tab-scripts - Automatically inject scripts into tabs with activeTab

[!NOTE] Firefox has some limitations:

• activeTab seems to be lost after a reload
• further contextMenu clicks receive a moz-extension URL rather than the current page’s URL

Related

• webext-dynamic-content-scripts - Automatically registers your content_scripts on domains added via permission.request.
• webext-events - High-level events and utilities for events in Web Extensions
• Awesome-WebExtensions - A curated list of awesome resources for WebExtensions development.
• More…

License

MIT © Federico Brigante