Installation on Chrome

• Fork the repo
• Start Chrome
• In the URL bar type chrome://extensions
• Enable developer mode (it's a button)
• Click on "Load unpackaged extension"
• Navigate to your local repo

The extension is now installed, and will appear at the top right, if you are logged into your account, in the form of a red button with a white pencil

Installation on Firefox (build from latest source)

• Fork the repo

• Install web-ext: npm install --global web-ext

• Either:

  • run it threw the extension directory thanks to web-ext: web-ext run
  • build an extension and install it
    • into the extension directory: web-ext build
    • into Firefox enter about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox as the URL
    • Menu "load a temporary module" > pick the file generated from the web-ext build command
    • redo this operation each time you want to use it

• Note: if you want to do the "build" method above without installing npm, you might use docker:

  • go to the project directory
  • launch docker run --rm -ti -v $(pwd):/home/node node:lts-slim bash
  • within the container run the following:

    cd /home/node
    npm install --global web-ext
    web-ext build
    exit

  • the extension will be inside the web-ext-artifacts folder

The extension is now installed, and will appear at the top right, if you are logged into your account, in the form of a red button with a white pencil