In June 2023, Microsoft Edge would not allow Edge extensions with manifest version before v3 to be listed on Microsoft web stores as v3 extensions add more security privacy related restrictions on some of the functions. Hence all extensions with manifest v2 must migrate to v3. In this post, we would show how we did the migration for one of our extensions and the changes made.There is a checklist provided by Microsoft Edge team on what needs to be updated so that the extension can still work in v3. It can be checked before your migration starts.The first change needs to be made is to ...

If you have experience of writing Chrome extension, you may be familiar with how you can add a context menu for your extension. The code would be similar to below:chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function() { chrome.contextMenus.removeAll(); chrome.contextMenus.create({ "id": "your_id", "title": "Your Title", "contexts": ["all"] });});You need to add a listener listening to the extension install event. Once the extension is installed, create a context menu item with id your_id which applies to all elements on the page. After installing the extension, you wou...

In an X509 certificate, the cRLDistributionPoints extension provides a mechanism for the certificate validator to retrieve a CRL(Certificate Revocation List) which can be used to verify whether the given certificate is revoked.  A cRLDistributionPoints extension can contain one or more DistributionPoints where the CRL can be retrieved from. Each DistributionPoint consists of three fields,each of which is optional:distributionPoint : it contains either a SEQUENCE of general names or a single value. One distributionPoint can contain one or more general names which show w...

Chrome is a powerful browser, one reason why it's so powerful is that it has abundant extensions. There are various extensions in Chrome Web Store. They can meet all kinds of needs you have and they are very easy to install as well. Here we share with you 8 powerful extensions on Chrome. All of them can be downloaded from Chrome Web StoreHolmesA bookmark search tool, if you have lots of bookmarks and you even don't know where they are. Hplmes can help you find them in real time by matching title and address.LastPassA password management tool. You can store all your password information so that...