ChromeSniffer

This is a fork of the original ChromeSniffer. The maintainer hasn't merged a pull request in quite some time, so I'm pulling them here and adding my own along the way.

Installation

First, you'll need to clone this repo:

git clone git://github.com/chieffancypants/chromesniffer.git

To install in chrome, go to the extensions panel (chrome://settings/extensions) and click the "Load unpacked extension' and provide it with the directory you just cloned.

Documentation

There are lots of work-arounds in this script, which makes the flow of events and operations difficult to understand. For that reason I'm documenting the basic workflow of the extension:

one instance of the "background" page is loaded
main.js gets injected into each tab by chrome
main.js injects detector.js into the tab
detector.js runs on the page detecting apps
detector.js serializes the apps in JSON in a special <meta> tag
detector.js issues "ready" event that is listened to by main.js
upon receiving that event, main.js sends a "result" message to background.js along with the json.parsed app list
background.js recieves the list of apps, stores it in tabinfo array
background.js sets the icon for the popup
background.js tells chrome to show/load popup.js
popup.js sends background.js a message asking for the list of apps