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Tons of people use Chromebooks, and the Chrome Engine is used not just on Google Chrome, but Chromium, Brave, Opera, Microsoft Edge, etc.
Not sure yet if the extension can be made to work on chrome engine as is, or a new branch needs be done.
Anyways, work in this area has already been made as the Firefox browser.menus API, has been replaced with chrome compatible contextMenus

Currently version is hard coded to NIV, a small html action button that displays a bible translation drop down could be written for users to select their favorite translation

When clicking the browser action button (extension button in toolbar area), the verse of the day from biblegateway.com should come up.

Currently in src/verseOfTheDay.js there is mechanism in place to check each time the verse of the day is request, if it has expired or not (i.e. if it's still the same day), this has been implemented by comparing day numbers (example Sunday = 1, Monday = 2), instead of whole dates (i.e. 23.05.2021).
This is a bug because if a user only uses the browser on, say, Sundays, the mechanism will conclude it's the same date, which is wrong, and not fetch a new verse of the day.

Currently, after selecting text, the extension decides if selection is a valid Bible reference or not and based on this enables/disables the context menu.
I would be much easier and faster for the user, if instead, we got fetch the text in background and later on display in int the same page, in small frame above the selection.

Currently the toolbar (browser action as internally called), who's HTML code is stored in src/action, is very dull, with no CSS arrangement at all.
Maybe it can be made more pleasant to the eye via CSS? Any ideas/prototypes are welcomed.

Currently, there are several predefined translations the user can select.
A text input could be added, where the user input would override selection of predefined selection.

This also need to include validation, as to not allow malicious or wrong input

In the verseOfTheDay branch, if you click the extension button a couple of times, you will notice verse of the day, doesn't always render.
It looks like the problem is in the load callback, where the XHR instance doesn't always have it's responseXML property.
Maybe trying to switch to a more modern API like fetch could solve the problem?