Aurora Browser Extenstion

Browser extension for Aurora.

Chrome/Opera Extension

Open chrome://extensions/.
Select the Developer mode checkbox.
Press Load unpacked extension... and open ./extensions/build/chrome folder.

Firefox WebExtensions

Open about:debugging#addons.
Select the Enable add-on debugging checkbox.
Press Load Temporary Add-on and open ./extensions/build/firefox/extension.js.

Microsoft Edge Extensions

Isn't working for now.

Open about:flags.
Select the Enable extension developer features checkbox.
Select More (...) to open the menu.
Select Extensions from the menu.
Select the Load extension button and open ./extensions/build/edge/ folder.

WebSocket server

You can write your own server and start listening on ws://localhost:1337, but I also wrote a simple server on NodeJS for debug reasons.

Going to be deprecated, because of moving to Native Messaging API.

Protocol

For now, the extension can only send messages about current tab location and active/inactive browser state. Every message have information about API version, type of message and information about browser.

Examples:

Browser window is focused or unfocused:

{
  "version": 1,
  "type": "focus",
  "browser": {
    "name": "Opera",
    "version": "50.0"
  },
  "payload": {
    "focused": true
  }
}

Browser tab have a new url:

{
  "version": 1,
  "type": "url",
  "browser": {
    "name": "Opera",
    "version": "50.0"
  },
  "payload": {
    "hash": "",
    "host": "www.youtube.com",
    "hostname": "www.youtube.com",
    "href": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "password": "",
    "pathname": "/watch",
    "port": "",
    "protocol": "https:",
    "username": "",
    "search": "?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "searchParams": {
      "v": "dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    }
  }
}

Explanation: payload contains fields of Location object. Additionally, searchParams field is parsed to key-value object.