Playing sounds in MV3

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

Colleagues, could you tell me how this extension plays sounds without a visible window? 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earthfm/hegkfpbbpfalefjgpbedmblfoelckcmb

[Robbi]

If you  look carefully you'll see a small window in the upper left corner.

The purpouse of this window is to reproduce the sound in case the extension popup is closed.

Anyway the extension popup can play the sound without the help of additional windows. (as long as it's open of course)

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

Oh, right, I checked on my windows laptop and saw the window. Oh my god, that's horrible :(

[Alexander Harding]

Wow that's a horrible hack but thanks for sharing. On MacOS it looks like there's no window at all but I actually found it in the desktop switcher LMAO mv3 is such a shit show

See pic: https://imgur.com/a/rTxTFGg

[Robbi]

I did some tries with offScreen document api in Canary and I hadn't any problems.

I tryed with DOMParsing, sound playback and alert with good results.

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

Excuse me, where can I find documentation on this API? Does it require some kind of permission? Does this permission cause existing installations to be disabled?

[Robbi]

This is the direct link to the thread:  LINK

Remember,  you have to create a browser shortcut to Chrome Canary with command line switch   --enable-features=ExtensionsOffscreenDocuments

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

Thank you! It looks great. I hope we get this in 2023 :)

[Robbi]

I hope so too and, if there were no technical times, I hope that alternatively Big G has the good taste to postpone the migration timeline. (taboo topic, perhaps more than plandemic)