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Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by cocoflunchy on Sunday August 18, 2013 @12:30PM (#6233136)
Is this a good place to share mine? https://github.com/cosmith/grafit

I found that I frequently needed to monitor some value in a web page at work, so I made this extension to make a line plot out of any changing value: just right click on the value, select "graph this" and you have a little self updating graph in a popup.

It's still a little rough, but I find myself using it like once a week, so maybe it could be useful to some of you ;)

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by dbz on Sunday August 18, 2013 @03:17PM (#6233781)
Cool! I'd like to share my little extension! It let's you view the cached version of a webpage with Google Cache, Coral CDN, or Wayback Machine with a click of a button.

https://github.com/Dbz/WebCache

P.S. if anyone knows how I could add more cache databases like bing cache or yahoo cache, please tell me because I couldn't figure it out.

EDIT: If anyone is willing to test the Coral CDN, I'd greatly appreciate it. For some reason Coral CDN doesn't work on my browser, so I've never tested it =`[

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by kranner on Sunday August 18, 2013 @11:32PM (#6235460)
This reminds me of when Google was still in Beta and I was a 20-year-old at my first programming job.

Very few people in my office used Google and even fewer were aware of the cache. I wrote a quick little proxy server in Python that would serve requests from Google's cache after stripping out the 'this page is a copy of...' header. I called this proxy server Doctor Who. It was quite a hit. I kept it running until people forgot to turn off proxy settings in their browser and I started seeing plaintext passwords for Yahoo mail in my logs (at the time they were plaintext).

I had specifically asked people not to access web mail while using the proxy, though, so I did take the opportunity to yell out one guy's password in the stairwell: "Hey badboy1, how's it going?"

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by thejosh on Sunday August 18, 2013 @09:11PM (#6235051)
AHHHH!!

Needed something like this for ages, thanks a ton dbz!

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by CoryG89 on Sunday August 18, 2013 @01:46PM (#6233455)
Mine is linked to at the bottom of the article: https://github.com/CoryG89/MDNJump

I construct google query URLs with the I'm Feeling Lucky field specified and restricting it to the http://developer.mozilla.org domain and it brings you right where you wanna go everytime. It uses a keyword `mdn-` in the omnibar and registers a context menu item on text selection.

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by rogem002 on Sunday August 18, 2013 @01:15PM (#6233333)
If it's ok, here is mine as well https://github.com/MikeRogers0/LivePage

It monitors the HTML/CSS then reloads the page when something has changed. I made it when I was a full time front end developer, it still needs a lot of love but it does the job.

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by dhruvtv on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:17PM (#6234276)
Here's mine. If you need to copy link addresses more than once, you know how annoying it is. You need to right-click, find the "Copy Link Address" menu item, and click it. With the extension, you can simply do Ctrl-C/Cmd-C :)

https://github.com/dhruvvemula/copylinkaddress

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy-link-address/...

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by 67726e on Sunday August 18, 2013 @01:28PM (#6233383)
Might as well put mine out as well. Chrome extension to insert request and response headers. Good for testing and spoofing.

https://github.com/67726e/Header-Editor

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/header-editor/pkok...

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by jcutrell on Monday August 19, 2013 @09:55AM (#6237203)
I've been working on a "Send a note to Basecamp" extension for a bit. It (currently) reads the content of your open email in Gmail, and lets you send an arbitrary note to a Basecamp project. Useful for people who like to stay in the browser while they are cleaning out their email. Also, makes my email inbox actionable.

I will share it here whenever it's ready to show off.

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by th4t on Sunday August 18, 2013 @06:27PM (#6234548)
I would like to join in on this thread of comments:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/subreddit-omnibox/...

It helps to navigate and explore subreddits by providing autocompletion and suggestions.

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by ronnier on Sunday August 18, 2013 @02:05PM (#6233514)
I'll join in...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fgc-live-streams/f...

Totally unrelated to hacking :) It's for finding twitch streams for Fighting games (Street Fighter, etc).

Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by gibybo on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:48PM (#6234169)
This looks very cool, although I'm not sure I want to spend the time to figure out how to install it manually :( Why not put it in the Chrome store yet? You could even put it up with an opaque name and no description just as a way for others to look at it without going through the manual install hassle?
Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by DanielRibeiro on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:18PM (#6234278)
Chrome Extensions, particularly content scripts, are really useful and powerful. You can even use WebGL inside them: https://github.com/danielribeiro/three-hub#three-hub
Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by CoryG89 on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @05:12AM (#6242547)
Wow that is cool! I may have to add this link to my article.
Re:How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions by olegp on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:24PM (#6234074)