Support Opera

[embcla]

Hi and thanks for this addon! This is exactly what I was looking for: I'm annoyed at having to manually clean up links in my emails and on search engines.

Have you investigated how complex it would be to port to Opera? It's a great browser, I started using it instead of Firefox quite some years ago due to embedded vpn and generally higher speed and more polished (my opinion) aesthetics.

[Cimbali]

It’s on the wishlist (see #32 − but let’s keep this issue open) but I haven’t had time to look into it yet. Some usability issues still have higher priority.

[Cimbali]

For references, here is the Browser support for JavaScript APIs. In particular (off the top of my head and for the current version − so no 100% guarantee of accuracy) we use:

• [x] alarms

• [x] browserAction (with special handling of FF on Android)

  • [x] setTitle
  • [x] setPopup
  • [ ] setBadgeText − sometimes with null, when users request the badge to not display text.
  • [x] setIcon
  • [x] setBadgeBackgroundColor
  • [ ] setBadgeTextColor

• [x] i18n

• [ ] runtime

  • [x] getBackgroundPage
  • [ ] getBrowserInfo − to check the version info for a tabs.create parameter
  • [x] getManifest
  • [x] getPlatformInfo
  • [x] getURL
  • [x] onInstalled
  • [x] onMessage
  • [x] openOptionsPage
  • [x] sendMessage

• [x] storage.local and storage.sync

  • [x] get
  • [x] remove
  • [x] set

• [x] tabs

  • [x] create
  • [x] onCreated
  • [x] onRemoved
  • [x] onUpdated
  • [x] query
  • [x] reload
  • [x] sendMessage
  • [x] TAB_ID_NONE
  • [x] update

• [x] webRequest

  • [x] onBeforeRequest
  • [x] onHeadersReceived

As you can see the add-on seems to be easily compatible. However this is just drawn from a summary table: there is already special handling for versions within Firefox, so I’m sure there will be corner cases across browsers as well.

[Cimbali]

I think now that the polyfill is in there, it is mostly testing, building the extension, and uploading to the Opera store. I’ve never done that before, so it might take some time.

[embcla]

Thank you for the update! Honestly I had a look at the list of functions and was flabbergasted: been an embedded developer all my life, js and ui stuff are really weird 😅