Is it possible to create browser extensions using node-webkit?

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Andy Green

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Nov 15, 2012, 3:31:33 PM11/15/12
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I think node-webkit might be an excellent tool for developing web browser extensions, if it were possible to do that. Is there any way to create browser extensions with node-webkit (for Chrome or other browsers)?

Roger WANG

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Nov 15, 2012, 5:59:29 PM11/15/12
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It's not possible currently, since in node-webkit we made small but deep
changes in Chromium, the extension interface doesn't support it.

However, bringing the same idea of node-webkit to some extension by
doing some IPC upon Node function call is possible.

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