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Chrome's history page is a junk drawer. I gave mine a memory instead.
Chrome's history page is a junk drawer. I gave mine a memory instead. I have lost the same useful page more times than I want to admit. Not because I forgot how to search. Not because the page disappeared. Usually it was still there, buried somewhere inside , sitting between a login redirect, a docs page I opened by...
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How I Use Color Scheme Extractor When Building Landing Pages
How I Use Color Scheme Extractor When Building Landing Pages There is a specific moment in almost every landing page build where I start doubting the colors. The layout is working. The copy is close. The buttons are in the right place. The product screenshot is sitting there politely, waiting for the page around it to...
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How Designers Can Pull a Color Palette From Any Website
How Designers Can Pull a Color Palette From Any Website I used to save websites for inspiration and then forget why I saved them. A landing page would feel clean. A product dashboard would feel expensive. A portfolio would feel calm. I would bookmark it, come back later, and stare at the screen trying to decode the...
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How I Check Whether a Chrome Extension Is Asking for Too Much Access
How I Check Whether a Chrome Extension Is Asking for Too Much Access I used to install Chrome extensions the way most people install them: I saw a useful feature, checked a few reviews, clicked install, and moved on. That sounds normal because it is normal. Extensions are supposed to feel lightweight. A screenshot...
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What I Learned Publishing My First Chrome Extension
What I Learned Publishing My First Chrome Extension Publishing my first Chrome extension felt different from pushing a normal web app. With a web app, I can deploy quietly, refresh the page, fix something, deploy again, and pretend the first version never happened. A Chrome extension feels more public. There is a...
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The Hardest Part of Explaining Browser Permissions to Normal Users
When I started building Extension Permission Monitor, I thought the hardest part would be technical. I expected the difficult work to be learning Chrome APIs, reading installed extensions, calculating risk scores, handling edge cases, and making the dashboard fast enough to feel useful. Those parts mattered. But they...
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How I Built Extension Permission Monitor
I did not start Extension Permission Monitor because I wanted to build a security product. I started it because my own browser felt messy. I had too many Chrome extensions installed, and the uncomfortable part was not the number. It was the uncertainty. I could recognize some of the icons, but I could not explain what...
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Why Chrome Extension Permissions Are So Hard to Understand
The hardest part of Chrome extension permissions is not that the words are technical. The hardest part is that the words do not map cleanly to what normal people are trying to understand. A user does not really care whether a permission is called , , , , or . They care about something simpler: What can this extension...
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How to Audit Your Chrome Extensions in 5 Minutes
Most people do not need a complicated browser security routine. They need a small habit they will actually repeat. That is how I think about auditing Chrome extensions now. Not as a dramatic security cleanup. Not as a paranoid weekend project. Just five minutes every now and then to ask a simple question: What...
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I Had 22 Chrome Extensions Installed. I Had No Idea What Half of Them Could Do.
I did not realize how many Chrome extensions I had installed until I opened the extensions page and counted them one by one. Twenty two. That number bothered me more than I expected. Not because twenty two extensions is automatically dangerous. Some of them were tools I used every day. Password manager. Screenshot...
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OAuth in a Chrome Extension Is Not the Same as in a Web App
I underestimated OAuth in a Chrome extension because I had done OAuth in web apps before. That confidence lasted about one afternoon. In a normal web app, the shape is familiar: 1. Send the user to an authorization URL. 2. The provider redirects back to your domain. 3. Your server receives an authorization code. 4....
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Building an App-Store UI for My Chrome Extensions with Next.js
At some point, having multiple Chrome extensions starts to feel less like a portfolio and more like a shelf full of tools with no labels. That was the problem I ran into. I had been building small browser products: meeting reminders, permission monitoring, license utilities, and a few experiments that were still...
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Injecting a UI Overlay Into Every Webpage Without Breaking Any of Them
The first version of my overlay worked beautifully on a blank test page. That was the trap. I had a simple reminder panel for a Chrome extension. The extension needed to show a full page meeting reminder on top of whatever tab I was already using. Not a quiet notification in the corner. Not a calendar popup that...
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Why Permission Design Is a Product Feature
Permissions are not just a technical detail. They are one of the first product decisions a user sees. That is especially true for browser extensions. A landing page can be polished, the icon can look trustworthy, and the feature can solve a real problem. But if Chrome shows a permission warning that sounds broader...
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