neoOpus
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neoOpus
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neoOpus
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1 month ago UP
Hi Jason,
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this great extension manager, myself I've been looking for something better than SimpleExtManager, but after testing so many that I've lost the count during the last several years, And the fact that I am not good at programming then I was just crossing fingers that someone someday will take care of making something like what you did.
I see a lot of potential in your extension despite the lack of many features that exist in SimpleExtManager (which I still consider the best right now, but it is an abandonware)… This said, I hope that you are open to suggestions in order to make this even better for everyone.
This said I don't know if it is possible to make it work this way but a full replacement of browsers extension manager would the best thing ever since all of them sucks and still having the limited set of features made by Chromium team for many decades.
What would be great is also to have a sort of way to see the description of the extension, it can be as a bubble that shows up when the cursor is over the extension or an info icon in the tiny bar that when hovered shows the info in some way but that doesn't require additional information... What would be great also is to pack more information optionally selected from the configuration dashboard in that tooltips bubble and retrieved from the Chrome Extension Store like the version, update date, privacy, permissions, and anything that is useful and can be seen at glance. Optionally, the reputation and score of the extension from Chrome Store or alternative websites...
Grouping : Making groups or having tags, will help in organizing and testing the extensions, this would allow to enable and disable many of them at the same time, adding all the active icons like in SimpleExtManager to a group that can be temprorary in order to find what extension is causing a problem without losing track of what extensions we've enabled so we can go back to previous setting quickly.... And icon indicating the extension being part of a group and a tooltipe showing the groups it is in is a good additon, it can be also just some sort of colored lines or dots with the group color on the right of the extension icon or whatever you think would work better.
Sidebar : Edge comes with a feature that consist of opening extension in a sidebar, this allow to have it open permanantly and closed at will unlike the popup window, which is very practical when trying to organize and verify things without loosing track of what we are doing (imagine having dozens of extensions)... an example of extension that uses this feature is Sider and also exploring the option to have your extension icon in sidebar toolbar would be great this way it will be just there instead of taking place in the top toolbar which can be very crowded due to activated extensions that should be handy to have there instead of a sub-menu that require several clicks.
More buttons : I like the idea of having the home button configured to open the Chrome Store of the extension but having also the link to the author page (or what they configured it to open) would be useful too if another icon in the tiny toolbar can get crancked next to home...another that shows the used resources by the extension can be a great addition in order to kill those who use a lot of resources when there is a need to..And anything that can help identify if one is sl.owing down the webpage or being used by it can make the management complete
Linkage: Multiple extensions come with a helper extension, and linking them allows you to enable or disable them simultaneously.
Icons customization: as shown in the screenshot, some extensions fail to implement their icons correctly, resulting in a generic icon being displayed instead.
Extension Manager 0.5.19 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/124.0.0.0