Bromite: Adding rudimentary support for user scripting

Created on 22 Nov 2018  ·  6Comments  ·  Source: bromite/bromite

Is your feature request related to privacy?
Perhaps. I hope it would help to modify things on per site basis.

Is there a patch available for this feature somewhere?
don't know, there are webextensions which do that, but not expecting these APIs to work in mobile chrome.

Describe the solution you'd like
Chrome has rudimentary support for javascript: URIs. So I think it should be possible to add site-specific bookmarklets that can be automatically executed on a given site.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Bookmarklets didnt work for me. One can always copy paste javascript URIs but a troublesome thing.

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Bookmarklets didnt work for me.

Didn't _work_ or didn't _suit_ you? FYI, bookmarklets can easily be used in two easy ways on mobile Chromium:

  1. Bookmark any site
  2. Change it's URL to a bookmarklet
  3. Go to a site you want to execute the bookmarklet in
  4. Search the omnibox for the bookmark name, tap on it
  5. Bookmarklet will activate on the current page

or

  1. Enable home button
  2. Set bookmarklet URL as the home URL
  3. Go to a site you want to execute the bookmarklet in
  4. Tap the home button
picture Madis0 on 25 Nov 2018
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It would be nice, I thought of this in the past, but unlikely to happen at the current pace of development (myself alone).

It would require an UI part to configure the scripts and an engine part to trigger them when it's needed; it would expand the scope beyond what it is currently (privacy patches alone) and it is not strictly about privacy but more in the realm of Greasemonkey and the like.

I will leave this open for now, but likely will be closed in future as there is no interest to implement it nor maintain the patches needed for it.

csagan5 picture csagan5 on 22 Nov 2018

I was thinking of creating a chrome:// URI which renders an HTML page instead of taking the burden of creating a user interface. (After emerging of webextensions, I suppose greasemonkey does the same thing).

projectextremum picture projectextremum on 25 Nov 2018

@projectextremum that is still an UI to be implemented

csagan5 picture csagan5 on 25 Nov 2018
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Bookmarklets didnt work for me.

Didn't _work_ or didn't _suit_ you? FYI, bookmarklets can easily be used in two easy ways on mobile Chromium:

  1. Bookmark any site
  2. Change it's URL to a bookmarklet
  3. Go to a site you want to execute the bookmarklet in
  4. Search the omnibox for the bookmark name, tap on it
  5. Bookmarklet will activate on the current page

or

  1. Enable home button
  2. Set bookmarklet URL as the home URL
  3. Go to a site you want to execute the bookmarklet in
  4. Tap the home button
Madis0 picture Madis0 on 25 Nov 2018
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Problem with bookmarklets is that they are still a lot of manual work.

projectextremum picture projectextremum on 26 Nov 2018
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Two key points:

  • this is not related to privacy
  • I am not going to work on this feature and seems like nobody else involved in this conversation is

I am closing this.

csagan5 picture csagan5 on 26 Nov 2018
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