Very nice work, this will be useful in my day to day browsing for sure!
Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
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Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#12> you can clone it on your local machine, read through our code to verify that it is not malicious, and then install it I like that the authors share my concern about installing an extension that would by design record every page I visit. However the repository contains several minified Javascript files [1]. This somewhat contradicts their invitation to read through the code. [1] https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon/t…
Don't chrome extensions automatically update themselves? Assuming no permissions are changed I think they do. It would be nice if there was some sort of version pinning. After some investigating, this extension doesn't have an update_url in the manifest.json, so I think that means it won't/can't auto-update.
Every extension in the Web Store auto updates, doesn't need update_url
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#13This ( and TreeStyleTab ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... ) ) is the main reasons I keep preferring Firefox for leisure-browsing before Chrome. Every time I use Chrome, it's impossible to find previous pages based on the title or URL, while in Firefox is super simple and works really well. Which is kind of ironic since Google is all about search and data but can't handle a browser addr…
Yeah, it's incredible how search in the Chrome's URL doesn't find URLs (or page titles) I've visited 15 minutes ago. It's utterly frustrating.
Chrome's history search seems broken for the past 20+ versions.
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#14This has been one of my favorite things in Opera since they introduced it in the late 2000s. It seemed weird Chrome wasn't better at this. I'm going to have to give this Falcon a try because it looks just like what I would want!
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#15This ( and TreeStyleTab ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... ) ) is the main reasons I keep preferring Firefox for leisure-browsing before Chrome. Every time I use Chrome, it's impossible to find previous pages based on the title or URL, while in Firefox is super simple and works really well. Which is kind of ironic since Google is all about search and data but can't handle a browser addr…
Yeah, it's incredible how search in the Chrome's URL doesn't find URLs (or page titles) I've visited 15 minutes ago. It's utterly frustrating.
I'm not sure why you're experiencing that, but Chrome's bar certainly does let you talk about titles. Just type "Hacker" or "news" and see.
At least, that's what it's supposed to do and is currently doing for me.
I just fired up Firefox, and neither actually seem to index into the content of the page, which is what's so cool about this modification.
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it's incredible how search in the Chrome's URL doesn't find URLs (or page titles) I've visited 15 minutes ago. It's utterly frustrating.
I'm not sure why you're experiencing that, but Chrome's bar certainly does let you talk about titles. Just type "Hacker" or "news" and see. At least, that's what it's supposed to do and is currently doing for me. I just fired up Firefox, and neither actually seem to index into the content of the page, which is what's so cool about this modification.
I'm on Ubuntu and just tried this in Chrome, I went manually to news.ycombinator.com, then open a new tab and type "Hacker" and HN is nowhere to be find there...
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#17This is awesome! We develop a tool that does exactly this and found that getting the search right can be really tricky given the very large volume of data. Love the simplicity of making it a chrome extension. Excited to try it out!
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#18> you can clone it on your local machine, read through our code to verify that it is not malicious, and then install it I like that the authors share my concern about installing an extension that would by design record every page I visit. However the repository contains several minified Javascript files [1]. This somewhat contradicts their invitation to read through the code. [1] https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon/t…
I agree that the thirdparty javascript files also should be supplied in full, and minified during the build process. However, I've found the originals so you can still check if they contain 'contaminated' code. chrono: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chrono-node - a natural language date parser for Node and Browserify notie: https://www.npmjs.com/package/notie - a clean and simple notification, input, and selection sui…
It serves no purpose, reviewing third-party code that you don't even know is the same that is distributed. But anyways, since Chrome has autoupdate for addons, it doesn't matter if you're reviewing the addons you install or not, because it can change at any point.
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#19I made one a couple years ago called All Seeing Eye.. have not had time to update it since. Did screen capture too. On Github .
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#20How similar is this to fetching.io?