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Firefox Extensions

Enable screen capturing in Firefox for both localhost/127.0.0.1 and https://www.webrtc-experiment.com pages.

You have to deploy this addon on Firefox addons-store, yourselves.

Install from Firefox Addons Store

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enable-screen-capturing/

Check if screen capturing is enabled for your domains:

// ask addon to check if screen capturing enabled for specific domains
window.postMessage({
    checkIfScreenCapturingEnabled: true
}, "*");

// watch addon's response
// addon will return "isScreenCapturingEnabled=true|false"
window.addEventListener("message", function(event) {
    if (event.source !== window) return;

    var addonMessage = event.data;

    if(!addonMessage || typeof addonMessage.isScreenCapturingEnabled === 'undefined') return;

    if(addonMessage.isScreenCapturingEnabled === true) {
        alert(JSON.stringify(addonMessage.domains) + '\n are enabled for screen capturing.');
    }
    else {
        alert(JSON.stringify(addonMessage.domains) + '\n are NOT enabled for screen capturing.');
    }
}, false);

Insights:

Your requests to addon: checkIfScreenCapturingEnabled: ask addon to check if screen is already enabled for specific domains.

Addon responses:

1. isScreenCapturingEnabled - Here true means domain is already enabled for specific domains.
2. domains - list of same domains that are enabled for screen capturing.

Simplest Demo

Try this demo after installing above addon:

• https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/getScreenId/

Wanna Deploy it Yourself?

1. Open index.js
2. Go to line 7
3. Replace arrayOfMyOwnDomains array with your own list of domains

// replace your own domains with below array
var arrayOfMyOwnDomains = ['webrtc-experiment.com', 'www.webrtc-experiment.com', 'localhost', '127.0.0.1'];

How to Deploy?

1. Signup here:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/users/register

2. Use unique-addon-name here:

• https://github.com/muaz-khan/Firefox-Extensions/blob/master/enable-screen-capturing/package.json#L3

3. Add your own domains here:

• https://github.com/muaz-khan/Firefox-Extensions/blob/master/enable-screen-capturing/index.js#L7

4. Make XPI of the directory.

[sudo] npm install jpm --global

jpm run -b nightly 		# test in Firefox Nightly without making the XPI

jpm xpi					# it will create xpi file

5. Submit the XPI here:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/submit/1

Follow all steps. Read them carefully. This is hard/tough step to follow. Select valid browsers. E.g. Firefox 38 to Firefox 45. And submit your addon for "review".

It will take 2-3 hours for a Mozilla AMO reviewer to review your addon. Then it will be available to public.

License

Firefox-Extensions are released under MIT licence . Copyright (c) Muaz Khan.