Firefox Extension

[trymeouteh]

Please add this extension for Firefox.

[jkayani]

Sure - since Firefox supports the WebExtension API, which is basically a standardization around the Chrome Extension API, this should be doable. It's just a matter of trying to run it in Firefox, seeing what breaks, and repeating the process until it all seems to work.

[jkayani]

After some tinkering, I've got some progress! Here's what currently doesn't work in Firefox:

• Taking desktop captures (uses a Chrome specific API without a Firefox equivalent)
• Saving screenshots to Google Drive (uses a Chrome specific API to handle the OAuth flow, chrome.identity.getAuthToken)

Here's what I haven't tested, and don't plan to:

• Saving screenshots to awesomescreenshot.com. Does anyone actually use this? I thought the point of the extension was to divorce itself from that company
• Saving screenshots to Diigo. Same reasoning as above.

Everything else, including taking screenshots with visible area, selected area, and entire page, and saving screenshots locally and to Imgur, works. I had to replace some extension API calls that were deprecated with their modern equivalents, and I had to setup another set of API credentials for Imgur to work in Chrome and Firefox (since the redirect URLs are different in each browser, and the Imgur API allows 1 white-listed redirect URL per application).

So if there were to be a Firefox port of this extension, it'd certainly be missing the desktop capture functionality. The Google Drive stuff can be fixed, but it'd require manually doing the OAuth flow using the API that works in both browsers, chrome.identity.launchWebAuthFlow. This is fine, but will require a developer to setup a Google Drive API key, similar to the Imgur API setup. I currently have the Imgur API keys in my control, and would prefer not to - I think the project maintainer should be in their possession. Similarly, I'd prefer if he set up Google Drive API keys (one for Chrome, one for Firefox just like Imgur) for the extension to use.

Questions for @rojer:

• Is a Firefox port worth it? As it's currently set up, you'd have the same code base for both, but you might have to deploy with different manifest.json's to handle updates.
• If a Firefox port is worth it, are you willing to setup Google Drive API keys under your account?
• Would you like control of the Imgur API keys? This would mean I'd give you the user/pass of the Imgur account I have the extension(s) connected to. With this, you can change things like the client_secret and redirect_uri. We can do this over email.
• Can we remove the Diigo and awesomescreenshot.com integrations, for the reasons I mentioned above?

@trymeouteh: If you wouldn't mind, can you try loading this version (https://github.com/jkayani/a-s-minus/tree/firefox-build) of the extension into Firefox to test it out? You can load extensions into Firefox through these instructions: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Temporary_Installation_in_Firefox