I’m trying to write my first browser extension.
I’m a complete beginner and I’m mostly doing for fun but also because I miss an extension I was using in the past.
What I’m trying to do is to implement something similar to wealias extension that does not seem to work anymore.
That extension allowed you to create aliases that would have been transformed in the urls according to your configuration
I’ve looked at the documentation and the closest thing I’ve found is: omnibox
The only disadvantage of it is that it would requires to specify a keyword to trigger the extension which would make the process of aliasing less convenient.
Is there another option to capture the input of the address bar and replace it with something else?
[edit]
I was wrong on the fact that the wealias extension was not working. I simply did not read the description and I was trying to use it as I was used 
now that I know how it works it is clear to me that omnibox is being used by that extension since you have to type the letter a as keyword to enable the extension.
I’m still interested in knowing if there is an alternative option.
Since anyway I’ll try to create my own version
