[Feature Request] Use native messaging to enable vimium on new tab and chrome store
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 27k
- Forks
- 2.6k
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Use native messaging to enable vimium on new tab and chrome store.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/nativeMessaging/
Some extensions that use this method are autocontrol and external application launcher.
It would be great if vimium could use this as well.
Thanks
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked Chrome native messaging documentation and examining how the referenced Autocontrol and External Application Launcher extensions use it. Determine the Vimium entry points involved in enabling the extension on new tabs and in the Chrome Web Store; done means a defined native-messaging approach that supports both requested contexts.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100