Google Chrome Bonfire plug-in woes

Question

Hi all, I use the bonfire plug-in for all browsers, however, the chrome plugin doesn't behave correctly (in my opinion) compared to the other browser versions.

I wanted to know if this was by design? I don't find the chrome version intuative. instead of an overlay you have an additional tab. The functionality is slightly different as well. You're required to toggle "Attached screenshot" to update the screen you're trying to capture. Unlike the FireFox one that can happily sit there over your webpage until you need it.

Just wondered why there's a difference.

aprentice · Accepted Answer

It's by limitation, not so much design.

Firefox and IE provide a sidebar for extensions to use that allows Bonfire to happily sit there until you need it. Chrome & Safari unfortunately don't provide this. To be fair Safari allows extensions to add toolbars, but they aren't suitable for Bonfire's user interface. As a result Bonfire is limited to opening a new tab in order to display itself in Chrome & Safari, hence the different workflow.

There is a feature request open to add a sidebar to Chrome that we monitor. If this is ever implemented we would quickly make use of it in Bonfire, however, there is no committment from the Chrome team to implement this yet.