A developer who ships eight Chrome extensions under Legacy Tools has identified four distinct patterns for declaring host permissions in Manifest V3. The survey of the eight manifests shows that five …
Kaito AI's browser extension Kaito Pulse has been open-sourced and submitted to Google for Chrome Web Store review after privacy concerns over device fingerprinting emerged following its August 18 lau…
Developer Sam Samskies has proposed the Inference Provider API (IPA), an experimental draft browser standard that lets web applications request AI inference from a user-approved browser extension with…
MoveChat, a free, 100% open-source Chrome extension, enables users to transfer AI chats between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity in one click while preserving text, code blocks, images, and att…
Anthropic's August 12 update to the Claude in Chrome extension turns the side panel into a full Claude Cowork session, syncing conversations across desktop, web, and mobile apps with shared Skills and…
Anthropic has brought Claude Cowork to its Chrome extension, enabling skills, plugins, and connectors to run directly in the browser side panel for the first time. The update, available now for all pa…
AI Call Prep, a free Chrome extension from CallPrep, automatically generates sales-call preparation one-pagers by cross-checking company intel, recent news, competitor moves, and LinkedIn activity fro…
Miguel Acevedo, the engineer behind MarbleOS, is testing a macOS workspace that keeps an AI agent's files, tools, tasks, and outputs visible while it works, addressing the problem of chat transcripts …
A developer built CourseSpeed, a Chrome extension that provides granular video speed control across multiple online learning platforms including Udemy, Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, and Skillshare. The…
A developer spent 90 days commenting on AI side panel threads on Hacker News, Reddit, and Dev.to as research. They found that posts leading with personal friction and trade-offs outperformed product-f…
FanoutFox, a free Chrome extension that reads ChatGPT sessions to reveal the sources and queries behind answers, is now live on the Chrome Web Store. The tool, built by the blog's author, shows which …
Phia, the AI-powered shopping browser extension co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, faced two major controversies: in November 2025, security researchers revealed it was capturing full HTML …
A developer built ToS Radar PRO, a Chrome extension that uses local AI inference to scan Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages for dangerous clauses like AI data scraping, forced arbitration, and …
Verity, a new AI plugin for Chrome, claims to detect truth in online content but faces skepticism over its efficacy and high inference costs. The plugin aims to combat misinformation, but questions re…
Gemtype, an open-source Chrome extension, offers live grammar and spelling checking, sentence verification, and rewrite features using Google's Gemini API with a bring-your-own-key model, providing a …
A developer rebuilt the Chrome extension WordSense into WordSense AI, a zero-latency, context-aware AI reading assistant powered by Meta Llama-3.1-8B-Instant via Groq. The extension uses Manifest V3, …
A developer built Argus, an AI transaction firewall as a Chrome extension, and documented the challenges of submitting it to the Chrome Web Store. Key lessons include adapting to Manifest V3's statele…
Google's Gemini AI can help users create custom browser extensions in minutes, enabling them to modify web interfaces and improve productivity without coding expertise. The process involves describing…
A developer built three AI-powered Chrome extensions—PR summarization, risk scoring, and draft review generation—with zero backend cost by using a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) architecture. The extension…
A developer built a Chrome extension that lets users highlight text and send it to multiple AI models via a side panel in two weekends. The extension supports OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, but…