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    <h1>Chrome</h1> <p>I have a Chrome Extension that behaves like a web app (apart from using chrome.* APIs and Cross-Origin Requests) with multiple html pages which all use the <em>background.html</em> to communicate with a NPAPI plugin.</p> <p>The extension's structure (from the extension's root) is as follows:</p> <ul> <li>background.html</li> <li>plugin/ (NPAPI plugin bundles)</li> <li>frontend/ <ul> <li>main.html</li> <li>foo.html</li> <li>bar.html</li> <li>..</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>The background.html is loaded upon extension install and loads the NPAPI plugin, running indefinitely (until browser closes or extension is deactivated/removed).</p> <p>Upon clicking the extension's toolbar button, <strong>main.html</strong> is opened, which provides a UI nav to access the other pages foo.html and bar.html. </p> <p>Any of these pages uses <code>chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage()</code> to call methods of the NPAPI plugin and receive responses synchronously.</p> <hr> <h1>Firefox</h1> <p>Concerining the background NPAPI plugin, this was already answered in a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11573825/embedding-npapi-plugin-in-background-using-just-firefox-addon-sdk">previous question of mine</a>.</p> <p>From the options available in the current addon sdk, Firefox restricts message passing to JSON serializable values, thus I can no longer call the NPAPI plugin method directly (solved by passing the return value of the plugin along).</p> <p>The question remaining concerns the frontend app pages, which are local and should be trusted scripts. I have experimented loading them as <em>Panels</em>, but Panels don't seem suitable for a complete UI page, but rather for small snippets of information.</p> <p><strong>Is there a way to load these pages without injecting a page-mod contentscript in every page programatically?</strong> (which also requires injecting a new script upon page navigation).</p>
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    1. COHi! did you manage to convert the extension to Firefox? I have the same problem with the chrome.extension API. Please tell me if it's possible @oliwr
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    2. COHi Ofear, yes I have indeed managed to convert the extension by hand, however requiring the beforementioned page-mods. This does mean an increased effort in message passing, but it can be converted. If you've got detailed questions, feel free to send me an email.
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