how to trigger a browser add-on when loading a html page-CodePudding

I'm trying to create a HTML website that will trigger a specific firefox add-on when I load the page, is that possible?

I searched around but found nothing about it. How can I make my page interact with the browser's add-ons and trigger some of it's events?

Thanks for reading. any insight will be helpful.

CodePudding user response：

A better Google search pointed me towards this answer on stackoverflow which is for Chrome.

...and then after I knew what I was looking for, I found the mozzila documentation regarding sending a message to an extension here

Syntax as seen on mozzila documentation:

var sending = browser.runtime.sendMessage(
  extensionId,             // optional string
  message,                 // any
  options                  // optional object
)

The message is what you will want to figure out based on your use case

EDIT: The SO answer provided in my answer should help you quite a lot, as the Firefox API is same as Chrome's Chromium API