Web Accessible Resources for Manifest V3

Solomon Kinard
Simeon Vincent
Simeon Vincent
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New and improved Web Accessible Resources for Manifest V3!

New and improved Web Accessible Resources for Manifest V3!

Summary

Web Accessible Resources for Manifest V3 is here! Now manifest.json supports permission definitions. Developers can restrict resources based on the requesting site origin or extension id.

Examples

Wildcard site:

{
  "web_accessible_resources": [
    {
      "resources": ["a.png"],
      "matches": ["*://*/*"]
    }
  ],
  ...
}

Site specific:

{
  "web_accessible_resources": [
    {
      "resources": ["a.png"],
      "matches": ["https://example.com/*"]
    }
  ],
  ...
}

Extension specific:

{
  "web_accessible_resources": [
    {
      "resources": ["a.png"],
      "extension_ids": ["abcdefghijlkmnopabcdefghijlkmnop"]
    }
  ],
  ...
}

Extension and site specific:

{
  "web_accessible_resources": [
    {
      "resources": ["a.png"],
      "matches": ["https://example.com/*"],
      "extension_ids": ["abcdefghijlkmnopabcdefghijlkmnop"]
    }
  ],
  ...
}

Launched

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