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📇 Your digital memory extension, as a browser extension
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Keep tab state in background process (duplicate) #90

Closed Treora closed 7 years ago

Treora commented 7 years ago

It is necessary or practical for many features to query information about tabs and the pages they show. E.g. to access the referrer page/tab, the http headers, and other things that cannot be obtained from the browser API (except in certain event handlers).

I am thinking it may be worth to make this isolated and generic, to make it reusable in other projects. In a sense it would provide an alternative browser API. It would listen to various browser events and collect their data in a simple data structure. I am not sure about the desired structure: it could have an object with info for each current (possibly also previous?) tab; or it could be more like a queryable event log (datascript comes to mind).

Things like tracking the time and scroll would also need to keep state.

Treora commented 7 years ago

Oops; it seems I accidentally created this issue twice (see #91).