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SE Radio 552: Matt Frisbie on Browser Extensions

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Web Extensions - What's the Difference Between Pop Up Pages and Content Scripts?

Browsers have mostly coalesced around the web extensions API. Mozilla is planning on continuing its support for the blocking web request API, even though next week they're about to roll out support for manifest V three. Pop up pages and options pages are behave pretty much as you would expect. There's no CSS bleed or anything like that in pop up pages. Content scripts are a different animal.

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