All, Looking for comments on this:
I think there are only few end users that actually use our Web Extension, however, it’s a pretty valuable tool in user testing uninstrumented applications. Presently, our WebExtension (on Master) is Manifest v2. However, as you may be aware Chrome is moving to Manifest v3 (MV3). MV2 will be unsupported by chrome following Dec 2022. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-migration/ <https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-migration/> Mozilla/FireFox is following suite, but slowly. https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/manifest-v3-migration-guide/ <https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/manifest-v3-migration-guide/> There are some major breaking changes in MV3 that require a bit of re-engineering in our code base to address. Specially, the big breaking change is that Background Pages (as scripts) are not supported. Instead, MV3 moves to a more secure Service Worker model. Service workers will not support XMLHttpRequest as a POST protocol—they’ll only support Fetch. Fetch isn’t a protocol UserALE.js supports and given that UserALE.js is built directly into the WebExtension, to fix the later we have to mod the former. Proposal: 1. Add Fetch protocol to SendLogs as alternative POST method 2. Add `options` setting allowing users to specify which method is used (`fetch`, `XMLhttpResquest`), default is XMLHttpRequest. 3. Configure plugin to specify `fetch` as method in globals I built a WIP of this approach, and find that the MV3 spec of the WebExtension deploys and generates logs without error in Chrome. I’ve pushed it to a dev branch that can be found here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-flagon-useralejs/tree/MV3-update <https://github.com/apache/incubator-flagon-useralejs/tree/MV3-update> Note that FireFox has not fully implemented MV3. I have tested on Firefox, but testing has failed. Still a few more params to set in Firefox. Expecting that we should push solution to Master (and release) late in Q4 2022. Eager to hear comments, Josh
