Shows and stores your favourite colour, in storage.sync in the about:addons page for the add-on.
Demonstrates:
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storing data with storage.sync
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reading data from storage.managed,
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creating an options page and opening it with
runtime.openOptionsPage()
.
To have Firefox read data from storage.managed, create a file with the following contents:
{
"name": "favourite-colour-examples@mozilla.org",
"description": "ignored",
"type": "storage",
"data": {
"colour": "management thinks it should be blue!"
}
}
Name the file "favourite-colour-examples@mozilla.org.json"
and follow the instructions in the storage.managed
documentation to make the file discoverable by the extension (on OS X and Linux this means copying it to a specific location, while on Windows it means creating a specific registry key pointing to the file's location).