Investigate Chrome Plugins

[nelsonic]

Investigate building and publishing chrome plugins.

[anniva]

Chrome
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted

1. manifest.json -> [https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifest ] // AKA the setup

{
"manifest_version": 2,

"name": "Getting started example",
"description": "This extension shows a Google Image search result for the current page",
"version": "1.0",

"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png", // this is just the icon for the plugin
"default_popup": "popup.html" //defines the html file to be shown in plugin
},
"permissions": [
"activeTab",
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/"
]
}

2. popup.html
   -> Frame for plugin

3. script.js
   -> functionality

4. -> Upload plugin to chrome via developer tools.

5. Publishing
   https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/publish

[nelsonic]

@anniva please add your findings (in as much detail as possible) to the Readme so anyone else can pick up. thanks!