Chrome user interface can be modified in more ways than that of web pages. Since CSS has to be used for, well, everything, some special properties were invented. A couple of the special properties actually let you change the order in which elements are rendered, regardless of where they are in the source. These properties […]
Here’s what I currently do to open a link from a menu, respecting what the user actually wants to happen and without repeating code.
<!– … –>
<menuitem oncommand=”myExtension.foo(event)” onclick=”checkForMiddleClick(this, event)”/>
<!– … –>
/* … */
foo: function(event) {
myExtension.openURL(event, “theKey”);
},
openURL: function(event, key) {
openUILinkIn(myExtension.urlStrings.getString(key), whereToOpenLink(event));
},
/* … */
What to take note of:
openUILinkIn, whereToOpenLink, and checkForMiddleClick are part […]
Problems that occur when two specific extensions are installed are difficult to debug. You often won’t see the problem yourself, it’ll be some user reporting it. You have to lasso them long enough to figure out that that indeed is what’s happening rather than some system-specific or a difficult-to-reproduce bug. Once the conflicting extension is […]