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Developing an extension that runs just in one browser is already an endeavour. If you for some reason have to create an extension that works with multiple browsers the horror gets real. Thanks to frameworks like BabelExt it might just be a lot easier. BabelExt is a framework, that allows you to write code from … <\/p>\n

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