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How to detect applications that are not visible in screen capture from a Chrome Native Messaging host?
I’m building a Native Messaging Host in Go (Windows/macOS) for an online proctoring app. The Chrome side records the screen, and the native host should detect if apps are running but not visible in ...
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The sender sent an invalid JSON message; message ignored
I'm attempting to migrate a v2 chrome extension to manifest v3. The extension communicates with a Native Host application.
Apart from the Native Host messaging, the extension is rather simple, and ...
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How can I bridge AHK hotkeys to a Chrome extension using a Python native host (named pipe attempt)?
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I'm trying to build a minimal working system where pressing a key in AutoHotkey (AHK) sends a message to a Chrome Extension, via a Python native messaging host.
The architecture is:
AHK → Named ...
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Chrome Native Messaging Host in Python: Pipenv Not Recognized and Flask App Fails to Run
I'm trying to use a flask app cli tool to process some data for a chrome extension. I was able to set up the native messaging host and establish a connection that successfully receives a request and ...
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Chrome fails to read message fron Native host if the message length is multiple of 256
I'm building a chrome extension what utilizes a native messaging host for getting information about the DOM and transfer them to another app. During my testing i managed to send a message to the ...
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Native messaging On edge Browser
{
"manifest_version": 3,
"name": "Mac Address",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "Mac Address",
"permissions": ...
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Native messaging between browser and windows application
I want to send a message from a browser into windows powershell script and receive back a response.
Powershell script must handle diffrent messages from the browser and send back diffrent data to the ...
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(Chrome Extension) Unchecked runtime.lastError: Specified native messaging host not found
I've been trying for hours to set up a native messaging host connection between a simple Python file that reads in a message from my background.js file .But I'm getting continuous "Specified ...
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Native Messaging "Specified native messaging host not found" debugging
I have an edge extension that communicates with a native application using NativeMessaging.
This works fine if in my native.json the 'path' object is absolute.
Based on microsoft documentation (https:/...
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Is it possible to listen for console input from a C# Windows Application?
I have a .NET Core 3.0 Windows application that was interfacing with Chrome native-messaging stdin, however after .NET 8 migration, the application no longer has console stdin access. (Note: it was ...
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How to set up Google Chrome Extension Native Messaging and sending parameters to native host properly?
I am developing a chrome extension and I need to implement a feature that allows to launch an .exe on button click AND pass user entered parameters to that .exe.
Feature details:
User selects file and ...
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chrome extensions Native messaging, no communication whatsoever
so i've been trying to set up communication between a python script (external process) and my chrome extension. i've tried implementing the native messaging, in the best way possible looking through ...
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Chrome Messaging Host: How to ignore app standard output
I have a Chrome Native Messaging Host application writed in Java 8, running on MacOS, that uses SunPKCS11 to read digital certificates from a cryptographic USB token.
String providerConfig = "...
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Native Messaging extension in firefox not working
I am testing native messaging in Firefox extensions using the example at https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/main/native-messaging.
I have the add-on directory copied into a ~/...
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Play Youtube in VLC with yt-dlp.exe (no ads) -- context menu in Firefox
I want to preface that I have asked many questions already and have consulted developer.mozilla.org and tried even openAI
This is my first project and please be patient with me.
I have already used a ...