Firefox Android Add-ons menu item action

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Some options for the FF android add-ons menu-item action:

1) Show the existing "popup"

• it's very strange as it appears inside a full tab, justified top-left, leaving a lot of whitespace

2) Just route to the coil.com/settings page Two options: 1) just open a new tab each time 2) search for coil.com/settings and switch to that tab if it's already open

• would require an extra "tabs" permission in the manifest

3) Create an alternate version of the "popup" that configures extension settings.

Currently the extension pauses monetization when document.visibilityState becomes "hidden". This means it would not be super easy to show the (otherwise) active tab streaming state in this "popup" tab.

Note that Samsung Internet actually shows the popup as a centered modal. We may want to consider a uniform experience, though it would necessarily be Lowest Common Denominator.

I don't see any UI to actually load an "options_page" in FF, but it may have been that the extensions that I had loaded didn't have any. TODO

On Chrome the "" permission implies "tabs". I guess because you have full "content script" access to all that information (albeit in a less convenient form)

Firefox makes you explicitly require "tabs" if you want to gain access to information exposed via the "tabs" API.

It should (and hopefully/maybe will) be a non-issue, but previously Google delayed publishing a version of the extension for nearly a month due to permissions changes.

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Note: I can't seem to find any way to get an "options_page" ( per manifest.json ) to show up on FF android