Any appetite for a cross-platform refactor?

[drmikecrowe]

Hey folks, went down a rabbit hole yesterday trying to add Firefox support. I have a major portion of the extension ported to Plasmo, which (in theory) gives full cross-browsers support for all browsers.

I told Windsurf to test it and here's what it spit out:

I don't have the devtools panel working yet, but I'm starting to see the outline of how this could be nice:

After diving deep into the code for the day, I can see the response to this being two-fold:

• Negative, this is too big of a refactor
• Positive, because it will make things easier to expand in the future

To be frank, I'm not sure where I fall on this. I think, with attention, this would be really beneficial to refactor things out to simplify the core logic. Add typescript types to messages being passed back/forth.

However, if this is 95% complete with everything needed now (other than non-Chrome extension support), there's a decent argument this isn't worth the effort.

You can see my WIP here: https://github.com/drmikecrowe/browser-tools-mcp/tree/universal-extension/universal-extension

Couple of notes:

• This is NOT ready for even alpha -- just sharing for complete disclosure
• I envision we might release with the extension build/ folder so end users don't have to compile.
• I'm torn on whether to use the default React for the devtools panel. Is it worth it? Maybe?
  • NOTE: This is a pure windsurf conversion with 0% effort from me at the moment, so isn't representative of what it could be.