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How To Build Your First Chrome Extension

Himashi Hettege Dona on May 31, 2018

Changing the Web, One Puppy Image at a Time Let’s talk about browser extensions, or more specifically how to build your first Chrome extension. ...
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JeffD

Just a note on WebExtension: it's an API from W3C so this code may work on Firefox, Edge, Opera etc :)

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Himashi Hettege Dona

Oh good to know! I'll need to try it out.

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Richard C • Edited

My first (and only to date) chrome extension is a find and replace text extension. Makes reading the news much more entertaining! :)

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Himashi Hettege Dona

Haha that sounds great!

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Richard C

I like your example too! From the sounds of it, combining yours to replace images, and mine to replace text would effectively rewrite the internet's content! ;)

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Anna Rankin

Thank you for this clear how-to (and for PUPPIIIEEEESSSS πŸ•πŸ©πŸΎ)! This is the first article that's made this process seem fun πŸ’―

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Yaphi Berhanu

Very clear. Thanks for writing this!

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Himashi Hettege Dona

I'm glad you liked it!