Friday, September 13, 2024

StopTheMadness Pro 9

Jeff Johnson:

This new feature allows you to run your own custom scripts at any time on any web page. Your scripts can be triggered from the StopTheMadness Pro extension popup window, from a keyboard shortcut, and in macOS Safari from the contextual menu. JavaScript snippets are intended as an alternative to bookmarklets, which have several downsides such as the necessity to URL-encode your JavaScript.

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The JavaScript snippets feature is not available in Google Chrome or Chromium web browsers, unfortunately, due to limitations of Chrome extension manifest version 3. JavaScript snippets are supported in Safari on both macOS and iOS, as well as in Firefox.

It’s a kind of an OSA Menu/FastScripts for Web pages. There’s more information about how it works here.

Jeff Johnson:

It’s frustrating when people ask me to enable StopTheMadness support for Safari web apps. The problem is Apple, not me! Apple chose to support content blockers and web extensions but not app extensions in Safari web apps. But it’s difficult to explain the technical difference to users.

David Johnson:

Web Apps on macOS Sequoia and Sonoma support Safari Web Extensions and Content Blockers when you have Safari 18 installed. We hear the request for extensions in more places on iOS.

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