August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
634 pages
8h 24m
English
book
Building Browser Extensions: Create Modern Extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
by Matt Frisbie
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Index
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- Access-Control-Allow-Origin
- Accessibility extensions
- action property
- Action API
- activeTab permission
- Ad and tracking blockers
- Ad blockers
- components
- DNR rules
- implementation
- background script
- functions
- manifest.json
- rules.json
- overview
- testing
- toggling rules
- Aggregator extensions
- AI assistants
- Alarms API
- all_frames property
- anifest
- API namespace
- API probing
- api-test.js
- Architecture of browser extensions
- content scripts
- devtools pages
- diagram
- keyboard shortcuts
- multiple windows and tabs
- native desktop notifications
- network of distributed elements
- Omnibox
- popup pages
- WebExtensions API
- web page–based user interface
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- features
- language detector API
- prompt API
- rewriter API
- summarizer API
- translator API
- writer API
- Asynchronous shared storage mechanism
- Auth0 PKCE ...
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