Is there some way to add a speed dial component to an existing extension? Or does the speed dial always have to be a separate extension?
I want to have an extension, but then have a speed dial that communicates with the extension.
Looking at the manifest for the speed dial, it doesn't appear to coexist with a regular extension.
I'm wondering if there is some way to bundle using the NEX format or something like that.
I'm not actually aware what sort of extension and functionality you need but the speed-dial extension can do everything that "regular" extension does. The only difference is that you can't have combination of speed-dial, browser action and page action (all are mutually exclusive).
The speed-dial extension has background page (as regular extension has) and you can put any script you need there (e.g. with <script> tag). It means that you can do much more than just displaying some page/image on the speed-dials page.