Re: Emulating WebExtensions

2015-12-23 Thread Bill McCloskey
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Marcello Stanisci < marcello.stani...@inria.fr> wrote: > Hi list, > > Would it be possible to emulate what the 'backgroud' page does > in the context of a "normal" Firefox extension by using Web workers? > > In detail, WebExtensions dictates that each extension

Emulating WebExtensions

2015-12-23 Thread Marcello Stanisci
Hi list, Would it be possible to emulate what the 'backgroud' page does in the context of a "normal" Firefox extension by using Web workers? In detail, WebExtensions dictates that each extension has a background thread which runs independently of its foreground counterpart, and that they notify