Temporary Containers Firefox Add-on

Detailed information about the Add-on can be found on AMO. There's also this long-form article and the project wiki.

Development

Requirements

• Clone the repository
• npm install
• npm run watch

Run in Firefox

• npm install -g web-ext
• web-ext run -s dist
  • starts the default system Firefox, loads the Add-on and watches for changes
  • append -p profilename to start Firefox with a different profile

or

• Open about:debugging and Load Temporary Add-on which is located in the dist directory

Check about:debugging and click Debug under Temporary Container to see the console.

Run the tests

• Once: npm test - this also shows a coverage summary and generates a detailed report in the coverage directory
• Watcher: npm run test:watch
  • Set security.csp.enable to false in about:config if you want working parcel hmr for UI dev and change back to true when you're done

Release

AMO and GitHub

• Bump manifest version
• Commit, tag and push
• Upload zip web-ext-artifact to AMO
• Download published AMO xpi
• Create and publish GitHub release with AMO xpi

Pre-Release on GitHub

• Bump manifest version
• Commit and push
• git tag v1.0beta1
• git push origin v1.0beta1
• git log $(git tag --sort=-version:refname | sed -n 2p)..HEAD --pretty=format:%s
• Add release notes and publish

Libraries

Vue.js and SemanticUI are used for the preferences & popup UI.

License

MIT