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Chrome Native Messaging API

Chrome API that lets an extension exchange JSON messages with a registered native executable over the process's stdin and stdout, each message prefixed by a 32-bit little-endian length and capped at 1 MB.

Known aliases

Native Messaging

Relationships

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Current clusters

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Chrome drops the extension the moment the native host logs to stdout

A dev.to writeup wires CPU and RAM telemetry from a Manifest V3 extension down to a standalone Windows binary. The first of its seven written rules: nothing may print to stdout, where Chrome expects a 4-byte length prefix.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives55
Confidence45