Browser extension reviews, installation guides, development tutorials, and security analysis for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari extensions.
A practical guide to the contextMenus API — how to build context menu extensions, what permissions they actually need, performance considerations, and what to …
Read more →A practical walkthrough of migrating Chrome extensions from Manifest V2 to V3 — service workers, declarativeNetRequest, host permissions, and Firefox …
Read more →A practical look at tab management extensions architecture — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and …
Read more →A practical look at firefox mv3 implementation differences — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and …
Read more →A practical look at greasemonkey userscripts guide — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious …
Read more →A practical look at password manager extension security — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and …
Read more →A practical look at screen reader browser extensions accessibility — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and …
Read more →A retrospective on the TranslatePage Firefox extension — how it brought right-click translation to Firefox in the early web era, and how browser-native …
Read more →A retrospective on the TabHomePage Firefox extension — how it let users set a custom page for new tabs before browsers made this a native setting, and what …
Read more →A practical look at ublock origin advanced configuration — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and …
Read more →A retrospective on the PasteQuote Firefox extension — how it automated the Usenet and email quoting convention of prepending '>' to pasted text, and what …
Read more →A retrospective on the ContextHighlight Firefox extension — how it let users persistently highlight selected and searched text on webpages, and what modern …
Read more →A retrospective on the ImageToolbar Firefox extension — how it recreated Internet Explorer's hover image controls for Firefox users, and why it was eventually …
Read more →An editorial retrospective on the DisableTarget Firefox extension — how it stopped links from hijacking your browsing session with target=_blank, why the …
Read more →A retrospective on the ContextSearch Firefox extension — how it brought search-from-context-menu to the browser in 2004, why it was eventually absorbed, and …
Read more →A practical look at manifest v3 service worker migration — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and …
Read more →A practical look at content script security best practices — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and …
Read more →A practical look at firefox extension development getting started — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and …
Read more →A practical breakdown of Chrome extension permissions — what each one grants, where the real risks live, and how to evaluate an extension before installing it.
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