MagnumOpus/Ideas/Timefox/Firefox Extension.md

Timefox

To develop a Firefox (and Chrome) extension, you need to do the following things Source:

• Install Node and the web-ext package
• Find a baseline example: https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples
• Or alternatively use the boilerplate tool: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/browser-extension-development-tools/#boilerplating-tools
• The entry point is the manifest.json file; see documentation

Interesting for Timefox:

• localstorage and URL connection

• Persistent storage

• Pop-up

• Keyboard shortcuts

• oAuth

• Session State

• Runtime Notifications

• Page to Extension Messageing

• Overview page

• Tests

• HTTP response

• Messaging between extension and app

Ideas

• put the timer in the right click menu
• put the timestack as "stack" in a sidebar (https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/imagify)