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Re:Browser Extensions Standard by m-r-r on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:33AM (#14901003)
> The answer was "nothing really" - it worked out of the box for the main functionality.

Do you mean Chrome supports Promises like Firefox does? Last time I checked, the Chrome APIs were using callbacks for all asynchronous operations.

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Re:Browser Extensions Standard by weaksauce on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @03:24PM (#14904392)
There is a polyfill written by mozilla devs that port the browser namespace and promise based api calls over to chrome if needed.

https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill

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