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
#2Really really useful extension, whoa. Searching the content of pages you've browsed. I need it legitimately multiple times a day lol.
Two caveats though: 1) obviously it can't index the pages you browsed before installing the extension and 2) it's a bit unclear how to use it (in searchbar press f tab).
I'm also interested to see info on storage usage after a long time using it.
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#3> 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/tree/master/extension/js...
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#4Thank you for this! Many times have I wished the browser's history search could provide this.
Now that school is starting again, and I had some free time, I was thinking of working on a project that would allow to search through the websites you've visited, the documents you have on your machine, the photos and music you have on your machine (if you can run some program which generates a description for your photos and run some mp3 to lyrics program for the music), and all the same across many machines. I started looking at elasticsearch, because that is what I found during my research for the search tool I would need for this project.
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#5> 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 suite for javascript, with no dependencies
readability: https://github.com/arrix/node-readability - Node implementation of Arc90's Readability (however seems this code has been slightly modified)
semantic: https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI - Semantic UI JS support
stopwords: list of stopwords for the english language
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#6Really really useful extension, whoa. Searching the content of pages you've browsed. I need it legitimately multiple times a day lol. Two caveats though: 1) obviously it can't index the pages you browsed before installing the extension and 2) it's a bit unclear how to use it (in searchbar press f tab). I'm also interested to see info on storage usage after a long time using it.
Upon installation, if you the user opted, couldn't it crawl the history up to some specific date? Or does chrome not allow extensions to access browser history?
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#7This ( 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 address bar...
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#8> 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…
Switch to Firefox and only use fully reviewed/approved addons if you're serious about this. I just put a ported chrome extension through the full Firefox add on review process (thanks to web extensions they're easy to port now), and those guys rejected my extension twice because they couldn't replicate my minified code from my dependencies to the exact byte.
Chrome web store doesn't care what I upload and push down to my users. I've had numerous requests from spammers looking to buy my extension based on the number of users and their geography. I guess once they buy an extension they push malware down to the users, so even if you can trust the extension developer or source now, you can't keep that trust up indefinitely.
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#9> 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.
Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
#10This ( 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.