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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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Browser extension temporarily get disabled in Mac OS if the machine went to sleep mode for a couple of hours and then starts again

I created a browser extension in crossrider and installed in Chrome in a Mac Machine. If the system went to sleep mode for a couple of hours and starts again, my extension get disabled temporarily. Restarting the browser will solve the issue. Can…
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Crossrider browser extension warning

I recently developed a cross-browser extension using crossrider.com, it seemed like a reasonable choice of "framework" with multiple recommendations in blogs, etc. The trouble is crossrider also run an ad network and it seems they're sending browser…
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Crossrider Safari button icon tiny

I'm using Crossrider to develop a cross browser extension, it's working fine except that the button icon on Safari is so small you can't really see it. How can I expand it? I uploaded it as a 128x128 PNG in the settings page. This is a screen shot…
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How can I set a Safari Browser button icon?

I am trying to set the icon in my Crossrider extension using appAPI.browserAction.setResourceIcon (see code) but it does not work. What am I doing wrong? appAPI.ready(function($) { appAPI.browserAction.setResourceIcon('buttonIcon.jpg'); });
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Manipulate cookies in CrossRider

I am developing a crossrider (crossbrowser) extension right now, based on an existing chrome plugin. Part of the privacy concept and the login procedure i need to manually set and remove some cookies. In Chrome, i do the following…
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Browser Extension (CrossRider) iframe origin and parent access

I am developing with Crossrider an extension at the moment. I am now in the process of making it working also on IE and Chrome. The extension adds an IFrame to every page as a sidebar and from the iframe interacts with the parent window. To make…
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Removing images from a page before they load

I'm developing an extension using Crossrider and want to block certain images before they load. Currently, I'm trying in the extension.js file using the code below, but it only removes them after they have loaded and does't catch AJAX loaded images.…
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How to initiate a file download using a crossrider request?

I'm storing custom images on our servers. I'd like to have the user download the images using our plugin. When I send the request to the server I can see that it is started correctly but the file save dialog never comes up. Does anyone know how to…
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Crossrider extension on browser launch

I Need to make a homepage extension. My idea is to host the page on server and redirect the browser to that page on the launch of browser only. Can some one help me to create extension for this using crossrider. Thanks in advance
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IE 11 Crashes When Popping Out Tab and Crossrider Extension is Enabled

I recently started using Crossrider to make a basic IE extension that changes a specific website's layout to make it a bit more usable. I'm testing with the staging build and it successfully installs. However, I have encountered the following two…
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How do I change the Created By for my crossrider plugin?

When users install my browser it shows the plugin created by the name listed under my crossrider dev account. I'd like to change that to my company name but the site won't let me change the name. How can I change it to show my company name vs my…
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Crossrider - send window url from sidebar to remote database

In Crossrider, I am creating an extension with the sidebar plugin. The sidebar has the ability to specify a url //url:'http:// site.com', // URL of the iframe that will show inside the sidebar (your site's content) Would like to have this as a…
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Crossrider Popup Cached in Firefox

I'm having problems with a very simple popup code in a Crossrider extension and Firefox (tested on 35.0.1 and 25.0.1 but I'm pretty sure it's the same thing on other versions as well). Here's extension.js appAPI.ready(function($) { randNumber =…
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Extension options menu?

When I right click on my browser button there is a grayed out "Options" option. When I click on this option for other extensions, a simple page is shown that allows you to change settings for the extension. Is there any way to enable the Options…
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Global variable created inside CrossRider's appAPI.ready() function not available to page?

I am trying to create a Chrome extension using CrossRider and am struggling with how to create a global variable. My extension is essentially going to dynamically append a few JavaScript files to the page if a button is clicked, and I need it to…
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