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Recently I discovered this chrome extension called manganum that adds a sidebar with a bunch of useful features like chatgpt, google calendar and todoist. Sadly there is no firefox version. Is there something similar but for firefox?

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[-] OverfedRaccoon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't have an answer, but I am interested. That said, apparently Firefox can now import and use Chrome extensions with the new update. I have yet to try it myself and assume your mileage will vary.

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/firefox-users-may-import-chrome-extensions-now/

[-] sure@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The import requires the extension to also be available on Firefox

[-] igorlogius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

output from https://www.extensiontest.com/ doenst look like this specific addon could easily be ported or reproduced, mostly because the tabGroups API (ref. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/tabGroups/) AFAIK is not available

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... on the other hand i am not sure how required this "feature" would be just for the sidebar functions. i guess one could strip it out and check if the addon would still work "good enough".

edit: i briefly tried and failed, also because the addon is pretty obfuscated. So yeah the only ones who will be able to make it work is the addon developers i guess.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago
[-] bananahammock@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

This is just importing a list of extensions from chrome and matching them to a Firefox extension. If the extension doesn't have a Firefox version it won't fo anything.

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