Install

[capriciousduck]

How do I install the extension on firefox?

[tdulcet]

Download it with this command:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tdulcet/Colab-Autorun-and-Connect.git

Then follow these instructions to install it in Firefox.

[capriciousduck]

Ok. How do I install this on Chrome?

[tdulcet]

1. The same step from above to download it.
2. As instructed on the README:
   1. Download the webextension-polyfill (specifically download the browser-polyfill.js file from here to your directory from step 1. above).
   2. Rename the chromemanifest.json file to manifest.json.
3. Then follow these instructions (steps 1-3 in the middle of the page) to install it in Chrome/Chromium.

[19PHOBOSS98]

Hi, could you please help me :) I tried installing it in chrome and it had some errors in the extension manager:

I cloned it using the link above
I downloaded browser-polyfill.js from the given link
the cloned folder came with another manifest.json file so I got rid of that before renaming the chromemanifest.json file into manifest.json
I then opened up the extension manager and enabled developer mode

what am I doing wrong?

[tdulcet]

I downloaded browser-polyfill.js from the given link

You need to first click on the “View Raw” button in the top right corner of the page before downloading the file, so that you download just the JavaScript file and not the whole HTML page. Unfortunately, that page is not very intuitive. 😕

[19PHOBOSS98]

ok, so I hit "View Raw" as you said and right clicked the page and clicked on "Save As" and manually dropped the new browser-polyfill.js into the Colab-Autorun-and-Connect folder and it gave me this error at the extension manager:

I tried manually copy-pasting the whole script into a text file and saving it as .js. It still gave me the same error :(

[tdulcet]

it gave me this error at the extension manager:

Those are just warnings from one of the libraries that this extension uses. The first one is erroneous (see TinyWebEx/AddonSettings#7). You can safely ignore them all.

[19PHOBOSS98]

Oh ok, cool. Thanks!

[tdulcet]

For anyone following this issue, you can now install the extension in Firefox directly from AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colab-autorun-and-connect/

[kylevessPL]

Since 2023, manifest v2 has been deprecated and migration to v3 should be done beforehand:
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/migrating

[tdulcet]

Yes, MV2 may be deprecated in Chrome, but should still work just fine when sideloading extensions. 😉

PRs are of course welcome to migrate to MV3...