Feature Request: add support for loading chrome extensions

[iamKunal]

There are some useful extension the chrome web store that I miss after I moved to the electron client.
E.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-chat-thread-links/aogkhbmeeckelbhfemleoajbglamokbc

It would be nice to either have their features available or allow people to load their own extensions (via https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/devtools-extension) even if supplied via the config folder.

[ankurk91]

Okay i will try to implement this feature soon.

[ankurk91]

@iamKunal
The chrome extension you mention, is no longer working with new UI

I am trying to make some useful extensions to work with this app, for example:

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/grammar-and-spelling-chec/kdfieneakcjfaiglcfcgkidlkmlijjnh?hl=en
• Tried Grammarly but no luck
• What else , you want to see working inside app?

[iamKunal]

@iamKunal
The chrome extension you mention, is no longer working with new UI

They are yet to merge a pr for the new ui upman/gchat-copy#10

[iamKunal]

@ankurk91 What about tampermonkey support? The only issue might be adding scripts via the UI. For e.g. https://github.com/myreli/chat-extended

[ankurk91]

tampermonkey need user to add script, however electron does not have an address bar to show the extension icon

[iamKunal]

Just saw https://github.com/sentialx/electron-extensions
I also see they mention support for sentialx/electron-extensions#21 (comment)

[ankurk91]

i am not in favor of loading extension from hard disk path, i am using this one
https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/electron-devtools-installer
to install from chrome store using the id

[jwaiwit]

just share my tried (worst). after the browser loaded, try to inject the content js (used to work with old chat) using window.webContents.executeJavaScript(customScript);
document.querySelectorAll('iframe[title="Chat content"]')[0].contentWindow.document.querySelectorAll("c-wiz[data-topic-id][data-local-topic-id]") VM1157:1 Uncaught DOMException: Blocked a frame with origin "https://mail.google.com" from accessing a cross-origin frame. at <anonymous>:1:75

After search, found that chrome-extension have privileges to run on all_frames option.
I might be wrong. This is how far I can reached :D

[ankurk91]

I am closing this issue for several reasons

• Electron has experimental support for extensions
• This feature is not going to benefit mass number of users
• Extensions will cause app to consume more RAM and CPU
• Hard to debug and maintain