Reported from the live site: a media title was recognised and audio processing worked, but play and pause did nothing. Both halves of the command path were gated on frame election, and the election had named the top frame. Outbound, commands went to the elected frame alone, which holds no video, so they were delivered and ignored. Inbound, isCurrentContentSender() required sender.frameId to equal the elected frame, so the user's own play and pause arriving from the real player frame were discarded as a stale sender — which is why the room never saw them. Neither direction actually needs the election. Every content-script command handler already begins with findVideo() and returns when there is none, so a tab-wide broadcast is delivered to all frames and acted on only by the one that owns the player. And an inbound media event proves where the player is: sender.frameId is authoritative, costs no permission and has no timing window, so the reporting frame is adopted as the target and later commands are addressed directly again. Both relaxations apply only while the elected frame reports no video. A good election still takes the strict path, so the hidden-player rejections are unaffected. This is the general answer to losing webNavigation.getAllFrames(). That call observed the frame tree without touching it, so it never had a failure window; executeScript has to enter every frame and reliably loses that race against a player which renavigates and rebuilds its video, as Kodik does. The fix is to stop depending on the answer rather than to keep chasing it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
KoalaSync Browser Extension
This directory contains the Manifest V3 browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. It owns the popup UI, background service worker, content-script video control, invitation bridge, audio processing, and all browser-local settings.
Where You Are
manifest.base.jsonis the source manifest. The build script creates browser-specificmanifest.jsonfiles indist/chrome/anddist/firefox/.background.jsis the long-lived coordinator: WebSocket client, room state, host-control authority, heartbeat, reconnects, tab selection, and content-script injection.content.jsruns in the selected video tab. It detects video state, applies remote play/pause/seek, handles episode transitions, and applies local audio processing.popup.htmlandpopup.jsimplement the visible extension UI.extension/shared/is generated bynpm run build:extensionfrom the rootshared/directory. Do not edit it directly.
Key Features
- Manifest V3: Service-worker architecture with session persistence and explicit keep-alive handling.
- Pure Vanilla JS: No extension runtime dependencies and no bundler inside
extension/. - On-Demand Connection: The service worker connects only while the user intends to be in a room.
- Host Control & Co-Hosts: Hosts can switch a room into
host-onlymode and grant controller rights to trusted peers. - Episode Auto-Sync: Title/episode changes can open a lobby so peers resume together once everyone is ready.
- Smart Matching & Title Privacy: Matching video tabs are highlighted, while tab/media title sharing can be reduced or disabled.
- Audio Processing: Optional local compressor settings live in the dedicated audio options page.
- Status Diagnostics: The Status tab exposes connection state, ping, video debug data, action history, and copyable logs.
- Dynamic i18n: 15 languages are supported:
en,de,fr,es,it,nl,pl,pt,pt-BR,tr,ru,ja,ko,zh, anduk.
Tab Overview
- Room: Select official/custom server, create or join rooms, view peers, share invite links, and manage Host Control when supported by the relay.
- Sync: Select the video tab, send play/pause/seek/force-sync actions, and view episode lobby state.
- Settings: Configure username, title sharing, noise filtering, auto episode sync, notifications, language, and audio options.
- Status: Inspect connection state, latency, video debug info, history, and logs for bug reports.
- Dev: Hidden developer-only controls shown for the
KoalaDevusername.
Privacy & Permissions
KoalaSync requires <all_urls> host permission so it can detect and control <video> elements on arbitrary sites.
- No browsing history is collected or uploaded.
- Room credentials and user settings are stored locally with
chrome.storage. - No analytics, external scripts, external fonts, or tracking libraries are used by the extension.
- Audio processing is local to the selected tab.
- Title privacy controls decide whether tab/media titles are shared with room peers.
Installation
From the repository root:
npm install
npm run build:extension
Then load the generated bundle:
- Chrome/Chromium: open
chrome://extensions/, enable Developer Mode, and loaddist/chrome. - Firefox: open
about:debugging, choose This Firefox, and loaddist/firefox/manifest.json.
Development
Run the build whenever shared protocol files or extension packaging inputs change:
npm run build:extension
The build copies shared/constants.js, shared/blacklist.js, shared/names.js, and shared/README.md into extension/shared/, injects synchronous constants into content.js, generates browser manifests, and creates zip artifacts in dist/.
Useful focused checks from the repository root:
node -c extension/background.js
node -c extension/content.js
node -c extension/popup.js
node scripts/test-episode-utils.mjs
node scripts/test-title-privacy.mjs
node scripts/test-audio-settings.mjs
node scripts/test-locales.cjs
For the full suite, run:
npm run verify
Do Not Break
- Keep
content.jssynchronous and IIFE-based; it cannot import ES modules directly. - Keep the injection markers used by
scripts/build-extension.cjs. - Keep protocol names in
shared/constants.jsas the source of truth. - Keep extension runtime dependencies at zero unless the project explicitly decides to introduce a bundler.
- Keep all extension assets self-hosted.
Module Structure
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
background.js |
Service worker: WebSocket protocol, room state, host control, tab/content routing, reconnects |
content.js |
Video detection/control, audio processing, episode transition, host-only guest behavior |
popup.js |
Popup UI: room join/create, tabs, settings, peer list, status, diagnostics |
popup.html |
Popup markup, tabs, onboarding, status/debug surfaces |
bridge.js |
Invitation bridge injected into sync.koalastuff.net |
episode-utils.js |
Shared episode-title parser imported by background and injected into content at build time |
title-privacy.js |
Tab/media title privacy modes and sanitization helpers |
audio-options.html / audio-options.js / audio-options.css |
Dedicated local audio-processing settings page |
page-api-seek-overrides.js |
Page-level seek bridge for site-specific player APIs |
modules/tab-manager.js |
Tab lifecycle helper used by the background service worker |
i18n.js |
Dynamic locale loader and DOM translation helper |
locales/ |
Runtime popup translations |
_locales/ |
Browser-store manifest translations |
shared/ |
Generated mirror of root shared constants, blacklist, names, and README |