Create addons for Chrome and Opera

[tobiasdiez]

I have just discovered that there are Zotero addons for Chrome, Safari and Opera. Moreover, the implementation looks really similar to the Firefox addon. Thus I think it would be rather easy to create JabRef addons for these browser, paralleling the development of JabFox.

[stefan-kolb]

👍 for Chrome

[Siedlerchr]

Chrome and Firefox Addons are nowadays roughly the same code.

[tobiasdiez]

It seems like the only way to communicate between the Chrome addon and JabRef is to use the native messaging api. This is way more complicated then the solution for Firefox (process.start(path to JabRef)) and probably requires some changes to the JabRef installer.

[simonharrer]

We should install the plugins automatically during the normal installation. This also advertises them.

[tobiasdiez]

The new Firefox add-on framework WebExtensions (which tries to be compatible with chrome) also uses native messaging, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37769533/how-to-execute-a-command-line-program-in-firefox-webextensions or https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Native_Messaging. So if somebody of you implements the listener part in JabRef, I'm willing to try to port JabFox to the new WebExtensions framework and thus also to Chrome.

[stefan-kolb]

I'm definitely interested. Maybe we can discuss this in the next dev call!