Possibility of porting to Firefox Add-on and/or Permission to do so #5
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Hello,
First, let me say that I love your extension! Despite the amazing utility that video bookmarking provides, the concept either doesn't occur to many others or something, because Video Bookmarks Controller is effectively the only extension with video bookmarking of HTML5 videos as its main purpose. There are a few that allow for a single bookmark (non-persistent), 1 or 2 which feature a similar functionality as an afterthought and as such aren't as performant and oftentimes too buggy to be usable, and there are even a couple that work well, however, only on YouTube, but no other sites/no wider HTML5 video supprt beyond the YT platform. So VBC effectively belongs to a league of its own.
When I'm able to use Chromium based browsers, all is well but on my Google TV device, there's a yet to be identified bug affecting nearly every Chromium based browser (all 5-10 I've tried, anyway) that causes the browser to crash within several seconds of launch. This has necessitated the use of Firefox/Gecko-based browsers until the bug is squashed (WebView-based browsers are also an option but to my knowledge, none have extension support. User scripts are supported by some but I don't know if or how a CRX file is converted to user script and didn't pursue it). After learning that VBC or any close approximations didn't exist for FF, I learned that converting a Chrome extension to FF add-on is pretty simple in most cases and sure enough, I was able to do so with VBC.
I have preliminarily confirmed that the extension does indeed work as a Firefox add-on (I haven't attempted to extensively manage bookmarks through the built in extension management site but it does display the bookmarks created so far and of course, setting and jumping to bookmarks works properly). From what I can tell, the extension works exactly the same as it does for Chromium based browsers.
From what I've read, though, extensions installed in this way have a tendency to disappear, requiring them to be reinstalled regularly. Which brings me to the subject of making it available "officially," so that it's signed by Mozilla and doesn't necessitate jumping through so many hoops in order to use on Gecko-based browsers.
I am happy to upload it for you or provide any assistance, files, etc to that end if you'd rather do it yourself. I would also be fine with you approving of the idea as proposed but wanting no part of it. Effectively, whatever your wishes are, I'm agreeable to and though it's not ideal, I would of course be respectful of your wishes even if that means you do not approve in any way, making the manual route the only option for myself and anyone else that might want to use VBC on FF (meaning at least as long as Chromium based browsers are bugging out in Android/Google TV devices).
Thanks in advance for your time and consideration, and of course for the extension itself! (I didn't check if it's Chrome Manifest v3 compatible, but I really hope so!)