support.mozilla.org

[Thomas-D-C]

Background

1. Many extensions don't work on support.mozilla.org.
2. On https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1511440 I had an explanation: Extensions cannot inject content scripts into pages on restricted sites.

I'm frustrated that I cannot use your extension on https://support.mozilla.org/, as there are text fields where it would be very useful for typing.

Proposed solution

Does your extension require content script injection to function, or is there a workaround?

[tdulcet]

Does your extension require content script injection to function, or is there a workaround?

The autocorrect feature does require a content script. For the context menu conversions, it is possible that we could detect the missing content script and copy the text to the clipboard instead, similar to how we handle the message subject in Thunderbird (#73 (comment)). From testing this on SUMO, I do see an exception that we should be able to catch:

[Thomas-D-C]

Does your extension require content script injection to function, or is there a workaround?

For the context menu conversions, it is possible that we could detect the missing content script and copy the text to the clipboard instead, similar to how we handle the message subject in Thunderbird (#73 (comment)).

Yeah, great workaround, waiting for a better solution. :-)