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Unity Game (WebGL) as a Firefox Extension

Firefox is known for its' extensions. That's in fact one of the main reasons people still use it. They had to take a bunch of bold steps in the recent times to stay relavant, like ending support for older extensions, changing the security model and the api. Firefox  announced a new contest for addons, The Firefox Quantum Extensions challenge. I thought ill' give it a shot. I quickly looked up the documentation for creating an extension and looked pretty simple, there was this game for 2048 i was super excited to put games as extension, quick access short games might workout  i thought.. I wanted to check if i could use my existing game dev tools to create an extension.. hence Unity for FF Extension. I quickly exported unity game as WebGL and tried loading it as an extension. I ran into issues with something called CSP i don't remember seeing it before but here it was preventing me from loading the unity webgl game as firefox extension. After a bunch of mucking arou