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Building Browser Extensions: Create Modern Extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
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Building Browser Extensions: Create Modern Extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge

by Matt Frisbie
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
561 pages
7h 50m
English
Apress
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M. FrisbieBuilding Browser Extensionshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8725-5_8

8. Popup and Options Pages

Matt Frisbie1  
(1)
California, CA, USA
 

Brower extensions almost always need to allow the user to control some aspect of its behavior via a user interface. The popup and options pages are the bread-and-butter extension components that should be used for this need. Content scripts can also be used to offer an in-page user interface, but there are important tradeoffs and complications when doing so.

Note

Refer to the Content Scripts chapter for coverage on these tradeoffs.

Popup Pages

As its name suggests, the popup page is a web page that renders inside a ...
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