Create and Implement Firefox Branch

[luizperes]

• Create Firefox branch
• Study and implement Firefox add-on
• Create Chrome's equivalent manifest.json
• Implement popup.js
• Implement ling-bootstrap.js
• Run tests

[luizperes]

I was thinking... maybe it would be better if we had three repos instead:

• linguist code
• chrome
• firefox

In this way we would be able to keep the main javascript in one repo while focusing separately on each browser (that would use the JS repo as a submodule)

Do you even need separate extensions? Given firefox now supports at least part of chrome's webextension format.

[luizperes]

mmmm, interesting @Jonast, I read that Mozilla would include it, but I didn't know that it is already there. If it is, awesome!
I have never done extensions for Firefox (as I had never done for Chrome either) but will start from there when I do! Thanks a lot for the heads up!

@luizperes WebExtensions have indeed arrived in Firefox, and in the current Beta the old XPI system has actually been removed for good. So you really want to use that new format 😄

[luizperes]

Sounds really good! That would save me a lot of time! I believe that the old model was the reason why I decided to postpone Firefox! haha

[luizperes]

Hey @Jonast, I've just tried here. It worked 90% with no problems at all, I believe that the only particularity is the storage, but I will try to fix it soon! :)