Open Browser Extension Feature

[Bartlebyy]

What would you like?

I want a feature to be able to click on a chrome extension and open it. Similar to where people visit a page, visit/open a chrome extension.

Why is this needed?

I want to use cypress to test our chrome extension, and from querying https://gitter.im/cypress-io/cypress# it looks like I'm far from being the only one who wants this.

You have plugin code letting users load their chrome extensions, but then don't have any documentation showing users how to then open it.

And users then read through your docs assuming you support this and then find nothing on opening it. They then go to your customer chat and get no replies back time and time again ( I stopped looking at past requests after 5 of them were ignored). It's a very frustrating experience.

Please add the functionality to open the extension. You're almost there for supporting extension users, and you already tackled the hard part already.

[bahmutov]

Hi @Bartlebyy what do you mean by "open an extension"? Can you provide screenshots and videos of what do you expect to happen? Can you provide an example extension and the test you are trying to write? Are you testing an extension or want to use 3rd party extension while writing tests?

[Bartlebyy]

I mean being able to click on an extension directly.

I work on the extensions team at Calendly and are looking for alternative tools to use for testing our Chrome and Firefox extensions.

I see you support being able to load a locally created chrome extension, but are unable to actually click on the extension. (Think lastpass extension, you need to click on it to use it)

Our tool when you click on it adds a sidebar to the users DOM.

[Bartlebyy]

So in theory, since I'm new at this I'd want cy.open_extension('calendly') see "Welcome to Calendly for Chrome" appear on screen click login button, etc.

[bahmutov]

Let us think about this, I think it makes more sense to load the extension in the main iframe, so you can interact with it

[jennifer-shehane]

Our other issue for supported testing Chrome extensions: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1965

[metal450]

Also need the ability to open & test Chrome extension popups

[Beaulieu527]

Also need this feature! Has anyone figured out a way to do it programmatically with a custom command?

[julian-odroqa]

Any updates on this feature pls?

[eldiegod]

Now that web3 is big out there this is even more important than ever

[jonreiland]

Now that web3 is big out there this is even more important than ever

Seconding this statement. My team is trying to test our blockchain-enabled web app that supports Metamask. A way to automate Metamask interactions would be ideal.

[briareus-the-titan]

Let us think about this, I think it makes more sense to load the extension in the main iframe, so you can interact with it

Can you give an example of how this would work?

[jmitchell-figure]

Would love to see this as well. Our team is working with dApps and I would like to be able to test our wallet connect extension for transferring assets to/from a wallet. Currently I have the chrome extension setup correctly and it will load, but then Cypress can never find the iframe to interact with it.

[diegorafaelgraf]

Are you planning to include this feature in a future version?

[NorseGaud]

For me, it's important to open my Vertically Listed Tabs popup on the left side of the browser, not inside of it. It's a separate window, which I am guessing is a ton of extra complexity.

[diegorafaelgraf]

In my case I need to test using the metamask extension and I'm stuck because I can't interact with the plugin. maybe someone solved it in some other way?

[networkmonkey]

Could we please have some work around this done, having the ability to test and interact with extensions setting would hopefully port more people to cypress

[rkefi]

Any updates on supporting extension interaction? Adding +1 for the web3 case Thx

[NanoRoss]

For these kinds of things that users have been demanding for years, Selenium will continue to be the number one.

[philpetrov]

Hi, i need to work with metamask, playwright has method bringToFront. Do cypress have some updates?

[eldiegod]

stick with playwright cypress is in the downfall

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[BirgitPohl]

I'm thinking of creating a local server to run and test my chrome extension. But this is like extra-code.

However, currently I'm trying out Cypress component testing and utilising it to test a couple of page-sized components.

Still I'm facing a lot of issues, for example. It doesn't recognize the namespace chrome, so I can't play around with the localStorage and therefore load my component.

Why did I even look into testing the app? I am encountering bugs that I frequently built in, so I need something that prevents me from doing that.