Questions tagged [crossrider]

Crossrider is a cloud-based development framework that enables developers to easily create cross browser extensions while maintaining a single codebase.

Crossrider is a an emerging cloud-based development framework that enables developers to easily create cross browser extensions. It uses a single API and supports JavaScript and jQuery so developers with basic knowledge in JavaScript can write code that is easily maintainable while working across all major browsers - Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari.

This tag should be used for general questions regarding how the Crossrider framework works and how to use the API.

Questions about browser-specific extension issues should not be tagged with Crossrider if the question is specifically about a certain browser's API (use , , etc.).

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crossrider: store snapshot of bookmarks in local database and compare to current bookmarks list

How do I store a snapshot of the bookmarks list and then compare that to the current bookmars list every n amount of time with a conditional statement that outputs any bookmarks that have been added? I have been trying to do this to no avail. It…
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Checking ASP.NET Membership Authentication from Browser Extensions using JavaScript

Checking ASP.NET Membership Authentication from Browser Extensions using JavaScript Hi, I have a website [Visual Studio 2012 website] that uses ASP.NET Membership with OAuth/OpenID. Now I need to create a browser extension [Using Crossrider.com APIs…
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Windows Installer for chrome extension using NSIS

I have my chrome extension for my website, I want to make a windows installer for it. I used NSIS but it just copied the files and it does not appear in the extensions list. I have seen earlier a software , namely , lastpass which installs the…
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Crossrider setPopup not callling more then once

I have a problem calling crossrider setPopup multiple times based on some condition like if user is logged in then only show the Popup on browser action click otherwise show a login popup. But, it is calling only once after that. function…
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Bundle CrossRider as a single installer

Let me detail what I'm trying to accomplish: I have an application that besides the specific app code and installer, also bundles a CrossRider browser extension. The problem is that my installer generates one entry in Programs & Features, while the…
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Customize CrossRider installer

Let me detail what I'm trying to accomplish: I have 1 application that (besides the specific app code) also contains a CrossRider extension. Based on the options that the user selects when installing the application, he can enable/disable various…
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Successive json & jsonp requests fail using Crossrider?

I'm using crossrider to implement a cross-browser plugin. I've two successive AJAX requests (JSON and JSONP): The first is a JSON request for "login" which sets a cookie in browser. The second is a JSONP request for "save" which saves some data…
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Crossrider : Using mouse position in context menu

We would like to use appAPI.openURL but in place of sending the data.selectedText I woould like to send the text of the element under the mouse. But I can't find the way of getting the mouse position. My idea was to add in the appAPI.ready the…
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How to store data on crossrider local database such that data persists till the browser is restarted/closed

I have to store a 6 digit number on the crossrider local database, for which I am using appAPI.db.async . I want to implement one of the following : 1) A way to tell crossrider to delete the data stored, when the browser is closed by the user. …
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Why the DIV is draggable once in IE using Crossrider & JQueryUI ? & no dragstop event fired?

I'm using Crossrider, I want to add a draggable div to the page's DOM. The following code works well on Chrome and Firefox, and the dragstop handler function is fired for both Chrome and Firefox without any problems. But for IE, the div is…
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How to set more than one value for a same key?

I am using Crossrider API to develop a browser extension. I want to add multiple values for same key in Crossrider local database, The method that crossrider supports is appAPI.db.set appAPI.db.set(key, value, [expires]) But I want to save many…
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Badge color doesn't change, in firefox, using crossrider API (setBadgeText)?

I'm using crossrider, and I want to change the badge color of the browser button Here's the code (in background.js) appAPI.ready(function() { appAPI.browserAction.setBadgeText('0', [255, 127, 127, 125]); // GREY Color }); The code works well in…
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Crossrider setPopup() small width

My Crossrider plugin users the setPopup() function to make a popup when the browserAction icon is clicked. The problem is that when I click the icon, the popup is long and thin and unusable. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like... My…
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Crossrider Extension Performance on Internet Explorer

I am using Crossrider to develop a cross-browser extension. The extension injects a CDN hosted version of Twitter Bootstrap into the page and uses it as the foundation for which many of the components injected by the extension are styled. So far,…
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Crossrider: change title of a link

Using crossrider, is it possible to get link object in a dom and change the link's title. I am creating a plugin that detect malicious site and add [Malicious] in front of the link. I probably could do this by parsing strings, but if it is supported…
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