Detect and warn when browser extension installed about macos-wakatime HOT 2 CLOSED

Did you have an approach in mind for this? I guess it would technically be possible to detect whether an extension is installed by inspecting the filesystem. I am not sure though if this is what you had in mind since this could bring up technical challenges and privacy concerns. macOS might also show a warning when we try to access certain folders on the filesystem (but I didn't try yet).

There are multiple solutions that I could think of, but they come with different caveats:

1. Have the WakaTime extensions communicate with the macos-wakatime process via some IPC mechanism (might be a lot of work).

2. Implement a way for the macOS app to query the wakatime API for active usage of the extensions.

3. Just put a warning somewhere in the UI and show it regardless of whether the extension is installed.

4. Monitor the browser's extension folders (with the caveats from above).

I will move to the next issue for now since I am not sure what implementation you'd prefer and this may potentially be a lot of work.

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I like option 2 the best. We already have the API for it:
https://wakatime.com/developers/#user_agents

Just look for any user agents with last_seen_at within the last 5 minutes and is_browser_extension set to true. Also filter by name matching enabled browsers so we don't show the warning to people using macos-wakatime to track Firefox but not Chrome, and only have the browser extension installed in Chrome not Firefox.

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