Whale browser compatibility

[lepermagpie]

I'm having trouble installing SingleFileZ on Naver Whale, a chromium-based browser, whether by using the Chrome store or loading it unpacked. I get "Invalid manifest" or "could not load manifest". I understand this problem seems very trivial as I can just use Edge or Chrome but I've been trying to reduce my dependence on Microsoft and Google in any way I can. I've installed it on Brave, another alternative chromium browser, but I much prefer the UI and features of Whale. I'm guessing I could bypass this by editing the manifest itself? Any help would be appreciated.

[gildas-lormeau]

Indeed, for some reasons this browser does not like the presence of the key sidebar_action in the manifest.json file, see below.

  ...
  "sidebar_action": {
    "browser_style": true,
    "default_title": "SingleFileZ",
    "default_panel": "src/ui/pages/panel.html",
    "default_icon": "src/ui/resources/icon_128.png",
    "open_at_install": false
  },
  ...

This key is used by Opera and all browsers that supports sidebars (e.g. Firefox).

To circumvent this issue, you have to install the extension manually:

1. Download the latest version as a zip here: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
2. Unzip it somewhere on your disk
3. Open the manifest.json file in the root folder and remove the sidebar_action and its value (see code above).
4. Open whale://extensions/
5. Click on the button Developer mode at the bottom of the page
6. Click on the button Load unpacked at the right
7. Select the folder where you unzipped the extension

[lepermagpie]

Thank you!