Manifest v3 (Chrome) - Idle Trigger about historycleaner HOT 3 OPEN

I'm a fan of the new timer trigger. I waited a bit after the update to comment to see how well it works. Every time it fires it does something, and it fires rarely. The idle timer was most frequently a noop. But I think that behavior is dependent on which delete behavior.

• "Delete history older than a specified number of days." Simple timer makes sense here because running more than once a day is not beneficial. Idleness has nothing to do with it. Startup is weird, because then it keeps the history for potentially long periods; shutdown would make more sense, but that's not feasible I believe
• "Delete all history." This setting only makes sense with a short (day or less) interval, as otherwine the history available will vary widely. I think idle timer makes the most sense here, although having startup in addition makes some sense (again, ideally shutdown, but I don't think that's feasible)

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I'm fine to default to timer mode and depreciate idle mode. You could explain it better that timer 1440 means it deletes once every 24 hours. Just so it's easier to understand.

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Just as an update to this:

The idle trigger was deprecated in Chrome in 1.6.0, and the Timer was made default. Idle trigger is still the default in Firefox, however I am planning to change that for 1.6.2

(For clarity, 1.6.1 is being skipped because I made a mistake while publishing the Firefox version of 1.6.0, so 1.6.1 and 1.6.0 are the same version)

Due to WebExtension Polyfill not currently supporting Manifest v3 (see mozilla/webextension-polyfill#329), I split the code base to remove the dependency on WebExtension Polyfill in Chrome. The Chrome source is under cr-src/ and the Firefox source is under src/. I'm planning to undo this split and remove the runtime dependency on WebExtension Polyfill entirely. (There will still need to be some duplicated files (such as the webpack config, manifest file, and background script), however much of the code works in both Manifest v2 and v3)

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