Allow mutilple sources for "web-ext run --source-dir=..."

[piroor]

Is this a feature request or a bug?

This is a feature request: I need an ability to load multiple temporary addons at a time.

What is the current behavior?

Now I'm developing two addons treestyletab and multipletab. The treestyletab provides some APIs for other addons, and multipletab provides some features based on these APIs. Because both addons are still in development, APIs are not stable and I have to edit both addons when I find some problems around APIs.

Web-ext now allows me to start Firefox with just a specific in-development addon as a temporary addon, however I need to load two (or more) addons in this case. Such a usage seems impossible for now.

What is the expected or desired behavior?

web-ext should accept multiple source dirs, like:

web-ext run --source-dir=PathToAddonA,PathToAddonB,...

or

web-ext run --source-dir=PathToAddonA --source-dir=PathToAddonB ...

[kumar303]

Hi. I think this will be possible after #830 although that patch was meant more for web extension experiments. It will definitely allow you to install multiple extensions at once though.

@rpl is working on that patch but I think he has Android support in the queue for completion first.

[piroor]

It sounds good! I close this and I'm waiting for the feature. Thanks!

[kumar303]

Actually, I think it would be good to keep this issue open just to make sure this use case is covered. The use case in #830 is for experiments which is a bit of a different case.

[piroor]

#830 was closed without merging, so the --experiments is not available on web-ext run and I still need something way to do this.

[ygmarchi]

I need also need this feature. How do you get by in the meantime?

Use case: Selenium IDE is a Firefox extension to register user activity on a page and replay it. It allows plugins which are Firefox extensions themselves. Selenium IDE is a work in progress and while trying developing its own plugin one may want trying implementing new features in Selenium IDE itself. So one may wish to be able to load and debug both extensions at the same time.

[piroor]

Just as a workaround I'm using a forked version of web-ext. I think it may helps you: https://github.com/piroor/web-ext/wiki/Installation

[ygmarchi]

Hello, I'm trying it right away. Thank you very much, Carlo. Il ven 17 gen 2020, 14:22 piroor <notifications@github.com> ha scritto:

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[2br-2b]

Are there any plans to bring this feature upstream?