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jpd236 / CrosswordScraper

Browser extension which downloads crosswords from crossword applets for offline solving.
Apache License 2.0
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Downloads don't work in Vivaldi browser #18

Open wordlover opened 2 years ago

wordlover commented 2 years ago

Installs fine in Vivaldi (Chrome engine) and clicking when on a New Yorker puzzle page pops up the little window with 3 link options, but none are clickable:

PUZ | JPZ | PDF:

jpd236 commented 2 years ago

Seems to me like a Vivaldi bug - I found https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/52062/a-download-attribute-does-not-work-in-extension-popup where another extension developer essentially reported the exact same symptom (though some of the replies seem to be missing) and said they would submit a bug report. I don't know if anything ever came of it since their bug tracker isn't public (though evidently it hasn't been fixed, directly).

Since the extension has to generate these files dynamically, I'm not aware of another way to create links to download the files that could be used instead.

My main focus is supporting Chrome and Firefox - as much as I'd love to support as many browsers as possible, I don't have the time and motivation to investigate this or other quirks in other browsers and to try and keep them working over time. That said, if you'd like to pursue this, I'd recommend following up on that thread or in a new bugreport on the Vivaldi side. If there's a workaround that can be applied on the extension side without requiring much special-case logic or making the Chrome/Firefox experience worse, I'd be open to applying that if it can be identified.

wordlover commented 2 years ago

Fair enough - thanks.