Extension API: chrome.i18n.getMessage

[jonathansampson]

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/i18n#method-getMessage

Blocks #8327, #6366, #9828

[jonathansampson]

I'm temporarily working around this issue by providing a stub with the methods I need. The following defines responses for predefined messages, and returns the message key for all other messages.

Browser.i18n = chrome.i18n || {
    getMessage: function (string) {
        switch (string) {
            case "@@extension_id":
                return "pioclpoplcdbaefihamjohnefbikjilc";
            case "@@ui_locale":
                return "en-US";
            case "@@bidi_dir":
                return "ltr";
            case "@@bidi_reversed_dir":
                return "rtl";
            case "@@bidi_start_edge":
                return "left"
            case "@@bidi_end_edge":
                return "right";
            default:
                return string.toString();
        }
    }
}

[cndouglas]

Related to/duplicate of #4474.

[jonathansampson]

Reopening as we are now tracking these issues on a more granular level.

[bsclifton]

I think it's fair to say we won't be implementing this. We'll get this for free when switching over to Brave Core. Marking as wontfix since the fix won't happen in browser-laptop