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ChrisNZL / Fauxbar

An alternative to Chrome's Omnibox.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fauxbar/hibkhcnpkakjniplpfblaoikiggkopka
MIT License
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How to build Fauxbar from source code? #69

Closed clarkwang closed 2 years ago

clarkwang commented 2 years ago

Trying to fix #68 since it looks quite simple but I'm not a web developer and don't know how to build the extension from source. Any instructions?

ChrisNZL commented 2 years ago
  1. Click the green Code button and grab a copy of the Fauxbar repo (or fork it). I like using GitHub Desktop. Or download the ZIP file of the repo and extract to somewhere.

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  1. In Chrome, open chrome://extensions/.

  2. Disable your current Fauxbar or Fauxbar Lite extension.

  3. Enable Developer mode in the top-right.

  4. Click the Load unpacked button.

  5. Navigate to the directory where you saved or extracted the repo, and choose the Fauxbar\Fauxbar folder. Fauxbar will then show its icon but have a red/orange icon overlapping it, signifying it's an "unpacked" extension.

  6. Edit the scripts as desired. Depending on what you're editing, sometimes you can refresh a page with Ctrl+R to load the changes; otherwise you'll need to click the 🔄 (reload/refresh) icon to reload the entire extension: image

  7. If you need to test Fauxbar Lite specifically, check out the //// comments within manifest.json.

clarkwang commented 2 years ago

Cool it does not need to be built. *<space> in address box is now working. Thanks!