Spending fewer LLM calls in an ad-hiding Chrome extension: from 7.6 to 2.2 checks per page
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How to Build a Chrome Extension in 2026 (Manifest V3 Guide)
Originally published on the MatrixInn Solutions blog . Chrome extensions give you superpowers over the browser — blocking ads, automating tasks, inj…
Translated captions in a Chrome extension: tab audio in MV3, and one stream instead of two services
I build a Chrome extension on my own that shows translated captions over a Meet, Zoom or Teams call running in a browser tab. No bot joins the call;…
I built a free Chrome extension that drops your saved prompts into any text box with //
I found myself typing the same prompts into ChatGPT and Claude over and over. Rewording them slightly each time. Losing track of which version worke…
What Is SeenDisJob? A New Chrome Extension for Job Seekers
Wisdom Ekwugha is the developer and creator of SeenDisJob. SeenDisJob is a Chrome extension built for job seekers. Its purpose is focused and specif…
What it really takes to publish a browser extension
Every tutorial sells you the same fantasy. A weekend, a manifest.json, a popup — and you publish a Chrome extension with a neat little "published" b…
I Built a Chrome Extension to Track AI Token Usage — Here's How It Works
Six weeks ago I got cut off mid-debugging session by Claude's rate limit with no warning. Two hours of context gone. I started looking for a tool th…
GoFullPage got pulled. Here is how to take a full-page screenshot without any extension.
On 11 August the GoFullPage extension disappeared from the Chrome Web Store and got disabled in Chromium browsers. Eleven million users, one Tuesday…
How to Build a Profitable Chrome Extension in 2025
How to Build a Profitable Chrome Extension in 2025 tags: javascript, chrome, extension, money tags: javascript, chrome, extension, money How to Buil…
Reverse image search breaks on Instagram. Here's the fallback ladder that fixes it.
Every one-click reverse image search extension works the same way, and it is not the way you'd guess. It doesn't upload anything. It builds a URL: c…
Building a Local-Only Chrome Extension That Autofills Job Application Forms
If you've ever filled out a dozen job application forms in a row, you know the special kind of tedium involved. This post is part of my ongoing "aut…
I got tired of running 4 browser extensions, so I built one
I had a website blocker, a Pomodoro timer, a tab suspender, and a time tracker installed at the same time — four separate extensions, four separate…
Automating an app with no DOM: driving Flutter/canvas editors with coordinates only
In my last post I said that for normal HTML pages, element-based automation ( find / read_page ) beats coordinates every time. This post is about th…
Chrome Built-In AI APIs: A Hands-On Guide to Language Detection, Translation, Summarization and Writing Assistance
Introduction Chrome's Built-In AI APIs allow applications to perform selected AI workloads directly within the browser. Unlike traditional AI integr…
A 20-year-old HCI paper, resurrected as a Chrome extension
I missed the tiny "x" on a browser tab again today. Meant to close it, switched to it instead. Aiming a one-pixel pointer at an eleven-pixel checkbo…
5 mistakes I made building an AI Chrome extension — and the readers who caught them
I've been reviewing pull requests for most of my career. At some point the queue got bad enough that I stopped asking "which PR should I review firs…
Detecting Which AI Chat Platform You're On: URL and DOM Patterns for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot
If you're building a Chrome extension that works with AI chat platforms — prompt injection, session export, UI customization — you need to know whic…
Migrating to Manifest V3: what actually broke, what we saved, and what we gained
I built three Chrome extensions natively on Manifest V3. Not ported — built from scratch knowing MV3 was the target. Here's what that actually means…
Browser Scroll Restoration Is Broken on SPAs. Here's How a Chrome Extension Fixes It.
Chrome has had scroll restoration support since 2015. You can even control it: history.scrollRestoration = 'manual' . But if you've ever tried to re…
5 Cookie Tricks for Debugging Auth Issues in Chrome (No More Creating Test Accounts)
Debugging authentication in web apps is painful. You need to test the same flow as five different user types — new visitor, returning user, admin, e…
5 Cookie Tricks for Debugging Auth Issues in Chrome (No More Creating Test Accounts)
Debugging authentication in web apps is painful. You need to test the same flow as five different user types — new visitor, returning user, admin, e…
5 Cookie Tricks for Debugging Auth Issues in Chrome (No More Creating Test Accounts)
Debugging authentication in web apps is painful. You need to test the same flow as five different user types — new visitor, returning user, admin, e…
Chrome Put a 4GB AI Model on Your Computer: What Gemini Nano Means for Privacy
Originally published on MRTD.NET — fast, sourced news on crypto security, cyber & SEO. If you run a recent version of Google Chrome on a desktop…
I scraped Chrome Web Store reviews to find abandoned extensions that still have 100k+ users
I've shipped 4 Chrome extensions and 2 VS Code extensions. The advice that always sounds smart — "find a popular extension the dev abandoned, rebuil…
I built a privacy-first JSON viewer for Chrome after I got tired of waiting
A few months ago, like many devs, I noticed something off about the JSON viewer extension I'd been using for years. It had been quietly updated. The…
I built a New Tab replacement for developers drowning in tabs
Every developer I know has the same problem: too many tabs, no context, and a vague sense of dread every time they open a new one. I'd open a new ta…
How AI reads your website, and what that means for the people who build it
By Takeshi Yokoyama — Onecarat Labs Hi. I'm Yokoyama, and I build a local-first AI text editor as a side project, along with a few other experimenta…
"Persisting your real Chrome login across Playwright restarts on macOS"
Every macOS reboot, the same ritual. Open the Playwright-controlled Chrome window, see seven publishing tabs all logged out, and spend the next ten…