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This extension should notify the user about the operations it is doing in the background #1674

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bitsandbinaries opened this issue Feb 5, 2025 · 1 comment

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@bitsandbinaries
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bitsandbinaries commented Feb 5, 2025

First of all thank you for such a essential extension and open sourcing it.
Now as for this issue it's in b/w a bug and a feature request. Today I was trying to find the shortcut to open the devtools in Firefox by spamming some common keyboard shortcuts and I hit the Ctrl+Shift+U keys multiple time which this extension read and started to save all the tabs without me ever knowing that it was happening in the background. After some time I noticed that something was downloading multiple files in the Firefox. I checked and I saw multiple SingleFile saved pages.

$ ls ~/Downloads/*2_5_2025*.html | wc -l
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I was confused and alerted as I never did anything which should've done this. Until I thought of the actions I did in the past few minutes and picked the action of me spamming the keyboard shortcuts. Then I checked if this extension had any keybindings attached to that. I did found this:
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This extension should send some notification to the user about the operations happening in the background so that users are informed about the background operations. If you could please add some function that notifies the users in someway it'll be great.

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Thank you for the suggestion and your kind words. I totally understand your frustration. Unfortunately, as far as I know, it is not possible to display a notification in the browser. The extension icon changes its appearance, but I admit it's a rather inconspicuous signal.

I'll have to think about this. I'm a bit stumped at the moment...

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