electron-browser-shell

A minimal, tabbed web browser with support for Chrome extensions—built on Electron.

Packages

Name	Description
shell	A minimal, tabbed web browser used as a testbed for development of Chrome extension support.
electron-chrome-extensions	Adds additional API support for Chrome extensions to Electron.
electron-chrome-context-menu	Chrome context menu for Electron browsers.
electron-chrome-web-store	Download extensions from the Chrome Web Store in Electron.

Usage

# Get the code
git clone git@github.com:samuelmaddock/electron-browser-shell.git
cd electron-browser-shell

# Install and launch the browser
yarn
yarn start

Install extensions

Navigate to the Chrome Web Store and install an extension.

To test local unpacked extensions, include them in ./extensions then launch the browser.

Roadmap

🚀 Current

• Browser tabs
• Unpacked extension loader
• Initial chrome.tabs extensions API
• Initial extension popup support
• .CRX extension loader
• Chrome Web Store extension installer
• Automatic extension updates
• Manifest V3 support—pending electron/electron#44411
• Support for common chrome.* extension APIs
• Robust extension popup support
• Respect extension manifest permissions

🤞 Eventually

• Extension management (enable/disable/uninstall)
• Installation prompt UX
• Microsoft Edge Add-ons extension installer
• Full support of chrome.* extension APIs

🤔 Considering

• Opt-in support for custom webRequest blocking implementation
• Browser tab discarding

❌ Not planned

• Chrome Platform App APIs

License

Most packages in this project use MIT with the exception of electron-chrome-extensions.

For proprietary use, please contact me or sponsor me on GitHub under the appropriate tier to acquire a proprietary-use license. These contributions help make development and maintenance of this project more sustainable and show appreciation for the work thus far.

Contributor license agreement

By sending a pull request, you hereby grant to owners and users of the electron-browser-shell project a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your contributions and such derivative works.

The owners of the electron-browser-shell project will also be granted the right to relicense the contributed source code and its derivative works.