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		weaksauce on Aug 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Puppeteer Support for Firefox are you using native messaging? there's a way to bridge a program running with full permissions inside the computer that could use puppeteer or the like. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... seems like it wouldn't be that hard to sync the two but the devil is in the details. also installing the native script is outside the purview of the webext so you need to have an installer.

mst on Aug 8, 2024 [–]

If it's a single file you could just make it a download.

There's also the newer file system APIs (though in Safari you'll be missing features and need to put some things in a Web Worker).

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