Context menu item disappears in converted Safari Web Extension

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I'm trying to convert an existing Chrome Extension to Safari Web Extension using this converter.

Immediately after convert, xcode opens and I build the project with my developer certificate. Everything looks perfect in Safari: the popup works fine, the context menu item is there, options are there.

The moment I restart Safari OR rebuild the project (even without changes), the context menu item disappears.

This is how context menu is defined in my context.js script:

Code Block javascriptchrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function() {
    chrome.contextMenus.create({
        "title": chrome.i18n.getMessage("contextMenu"),
        "contexts": ["selection"],
        "id": "context" + "selection"
    });
});
chrome.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(onClickHandler);

My manifest.json has this:

Code Block json"permissions": ["activeTab", "storage", "contextMenus"],

I followed these instructions and added this key to info.plist in the folder "ProjectName Extension":

Code Block language<key>SFSafariContextMenu</key>
            <array>
                <dict>
                    <key>Text</key>
                    <string>Context Menu Text</string>
                    <key>Command</key>
                    <string>commandMenu</string>
                </dict>
            </array>

After rebuilding the project, nothing changed.

Any ideas how to make context menu consistent?

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climb

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Answer 1

Apparently there is a bug that context menus are not persisted between loads / launches.

So I deleted this part:

Code Block javascriptchrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function() {

and with just this it works fine:

Code Block javascriptchrome.contextMenus.create({        
"title": chrome.i18n.getMessage("contextMenu"),        
"contexts": ["selection"],        
"id": "selection"    
});

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climb

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Answer 2

Apparently there is a bug that context menus are not persisted between loads / launches.

So I deleted this part:

Code Block javascriptchrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function() {

and with just this it works fine:

Code Block javascriptchrome.contextMenus.create({        
"title": chrome.i18n.getMessage("contextMenu"),        
"contexts": ["selection"],        
"id": "selection"    
});

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climb

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Answer 3

Did you manage to get it working for Safari though? I assume the code you've shared above for Chrome doesn't work for a Safari web extension.

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namitchadha

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Answer 4

The code in the post doesn't work, the code in the comment does work in Safari.

In chrome it might throw a runtime error though if the background page reloads. Though there's no big harm in that.

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Context menu item disappears in converted Safari Web Extension

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