Proposal: Exclude Matching

[erosman]

Proposal: Exclude Matching

Background

While some APIs such as Content scripts or scripting support excludeMatches, there are others that don't have such option.

menus/contextMenus is a commonly used example where documentUrlPatterns is insufficient for this purpose.
Other examples include: webRequest.RequestFilter urls

Proposal

Provide a method to exclude match in APIs the don't have them

Suggestions

A few possibilities:

1. Consider negative matching in Match patterns
   As once suggested in Exclude in Match patterns, a negative match pattern that would simply translate to excludeMatches
   e.g. ["*://*.example.org/*", "!*://*.example.org/support/*"]
2. Add additional matching property (e.g. similar to scripting) to APIs that don't have it