Google Chrome and Opera Growl Support
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mumrah
Aug 21, 2009, 10:42:16 AM8/21/09
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Is there a way to enable Growl support for Google Chrome or Opera.
Specifically Google Chrome?
Thanks, Rah
Specifically Google Chrome?
Thanks, Rah
Brian Dunnington
Aug 21, 2009, 12:05:10 PM8/21/09
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not at this time. i dont know too much about extending Opera, but
extension support in Google Chrome is still being developed. once an
extension mechanism is available in the public versions *and* the
extension system has a means for communicating with other apps, i will
definitely look into adding support for Growl.
extension support in Google Chrome is still being developed. once an
extension mechanism is available in the public versions *and* the
extension system has a means for communicating with other apps, i will
definitely look into adding support for Growl.
FrozenCow
Aug 21, 2009, 1:56:02 PM8/21/09
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The current development builds of Google Chrome has support for user-scripts that are very similar to those of Greasemonkey. I'm sure it isn't much work to add support for Google Chrome. Opera also has some support for user-scripts, but I haven't done anything with this. Maybe I'll dive into Chrome support later.
Brian Dunnington
Aug 21, 2009, 2:06:15 PM8/21/09
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yeah, i had looked at the dev builds of Chrome, but the userscript
support was only half the battle - the Greasemonkey scripts are really
only used to hook into the containing sites events, but the actual
notifications are still sent through the Growl/GNTP extension. that is
because the notifications need to be sent over TCP, which js does not
natively support. when i last checked on the Chrome extension roadmap,
there was no support for extensions in the Firefox sense (where they
can hook into the actual classes of the browser at a deeper level), so
that meant no TCP support and thus i wasnt sure how to best handle it.
it just dawned on me though that, assuming the Chrome userscripts
allow you include other assests (specifically, a Flash object), then
the script could use the GrowlFlashConnector as the transport
mechanism. worst case, the script could load the Flash object from a
well-known external url and use it that way, which should be doable
today (assuming a dev build of Chrome).
so i guess it *is* possible - cant wait to see somebody implement it =)
support was only half the battle - the Greasemonkey scripts are really
only used to hook into the containing sites events, but the actual
notifications are still sent through the Growl/GNTP extension. that is
because the notifications need to be sent over TCP, which js does not
natively support. when i last checked on the Chrome extension roadmap,
there was no support for extensions in the Firefox sense (where they
can hook into the actual classes of the browser at a deeper level), so
that meant no TCP support and thus i wasnt sure how to best handle it.
it just dawned on me though that, assuming the Chrome userscripts
allow you include other assests (specifically, a Flash object), then
the script could use the GrowlFlashConnector as the transport
mechanism. worst case, the script could load the Flash object from a
well-known external url and use it that way, which should be doable
today (assuming a dev build of Chrome).
so i guess it *is* possible - cant wait to see somebody implement it =)
Ian
Sep 1, 2009, 9:56:43 AM9/1/09
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/chrome-is-gaining-desktop-notifications/
Chrome now works with Growl it looks like. Have yet to test this out.
Chrome now works with Growl it looks like. Have yet to test this out.
Jason Plum
Sep 1, 2009, 10:07:02 AM9/1/09
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Bah! They make no mention of the support for Windows! Grrr..
We'll have to correct this! (heck.. they may even make the C++ lib...
heh)
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