Questions tagged [chrome-native-messaging]
Native Messaging is a Chrome-specific mechanism that allows Chrome extensions to communicate with Native applications running on the host machine.
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Redirect sendNativeMessage sent to batch file
I am trying a test addon on mozilla that uses sendNativeMessage().
This addon sends a "ping" string to a .bat file.
I am trying to get the input and redirect it to a file.txt.
Sadly, all i ...
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(Chrome Extension) Unchecked runtime.lastError: Specified native messaging host not found
I've been trying for hours to set up a native messaging host connection between a simple Python file that reads in a message from my background.js file .But I'm getting continuous "Specified ...
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Native Messaging "Specified native messaging host not found" debugging
I have an edge extension that communicates with a native application using NativeMessaging.
This works fine if in my native.json the 'path' object is absolute.
Based on microsoft documentation (https:/...
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Is it possible to listen for console input from a C# Windows Application?
I have a .NET Core 3.0 Windows application that was interfacing with Chrome native-messaging stdin, however after .NET 8 migration, the application no longer has console stdin access. (Note: it was ...
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Connecting Java and Chrome extension via native messaging
I'm trying to connect Chrome extension to Java application on MacOS. Using manifest version 2 for testing purposes. My question is this - what should I specify as path inside host manifest file?
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How to set up Google Chrome Extension Native Messaging and sending parameters to native host properly?
I am developing a chrome extension and I need to implement a feature that allows to launch an .exe on button click AND pass user entered parameters to that .exe.
Feature details:
User selects file and ...
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chrome extensions Native messaging, no communication whatsoever
so i've been trying to set up communication between a python script (external process) and my chrome extension. i've tried implementing the native messaging, in the best way possible looking through ...
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Chrome Messaging Host: How to ignore app standard output
I have a Chrome Native Messaging Host application writed in Java 8, running on MacOS, that uses SunPKCS11 to read digital certificates from a cryptographic USB token.
String providerConfig = "...
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Native Messaging extension in firefox not working
I am testing native messaging in Firefox extensions using the example at https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/main/native-messaging.
I have the add-on directory copied into a ~/...
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Sample of Chrome Native Messaging manifest V3
Do you have any example on the below task I need to implement
I have an exe written in c#. This exe is will return data in json string
I have a web application, web application will run the exe ...
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Play Youtube in VLC with yt-dlp.exe (no ads) -- context menu in Firefox
I want to preface that I have asked many questions already and have consulted developer.mozilla.org and tried even openAI
This is my first project and please be patient with me.
I have already used a ...
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How to get mapping of browser and native host launched through extension launched from an application?
Suppose an application launches a browser which in turn launches a native messaging host through an extension. After that, say, application needs to communicate with the native host which in turn can ...
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Google Chrome Native Messaging can't connect to Node JS in M2 Macbook but working in Intel Macbook
I have Chrome extension that uses runtime.connectNative and runtime.sendMessage to communicate to my simple Node JS app that listens to any message from the extension.
The problem is, it doesn't work ...
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Syncing data when using Chrome Native Messaging from multiple windows/instances
This helped me to understand how to implement native host for Chrome, however, the whole reason I'm going this way is that I can have one shared state where I can store data and send/request back and ...
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In a Chrome Extension, can a Service Worker receive Native Messaging with no browser window open?
We have been shipping a Chrome extension since the beginning, year 2011 or whatever. The extension works with our macOS native bookmarks management app, giving it access to Chrome bookmarks via ...
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