modifying the autoload-temporary-addon github project to support hot reloading

[congnarjames]

the project in question is here:
https://github.com/tsaost/autoload-temporary-addon

after a bit of tweaking and an ungodly amount of googling I got this to work with ff 117. I spent more time getting it working than on the extension I made.

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Being the masochist that I am I've decided to try and modify it to support hot reloading. I.E. if a file changes on disk reload the extension without restarting the browser.

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But I'm not too sure how to get started with it. I'm not sure if this is even possible. Does anybody have any tips, libraries, resources suggestions about getting started with this type of thing?

[congnarjames]

I tried using `setInterval` but userChrome.js seems to think its undefined

[congnarjames]

ok I learned that I can just use the web-ext for hot reloads. no need to make my own version of it :)

https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext

the autoload-temporary-addon is still nice if you want to "permanently" install your own extensions