Sure. I was kind of assuming that @kenoubi would know what I was talking about, but yes, it probably needs some explaining before everyone could do it.
In Chrome, you can go to the extensions page, either by entering chrome://extensions in the URL bar, or by going to Settings, then selecting Extensions (in the sidebar on the left), or with “More tools -> Extensions”.
Once you’re on that page, turn on “developer mode” (in the top right corner):
You’ll then see in the top-left a button labeled “Load unpacked”.
This button allows you to load an extension from a folder on your computer. Of course, you first need to download my extension to a folder.
Here’s a link to the extension as a zip file, or you could clone the repository and build it from source. (Which isn’t hard per se, but is a bit more technical than you might like.)
(For those who do want to build it from source:
- Clone the repository:
git clone git@github.com:quantified-self-tools/beebrowse.git - Run
npm install - Run
npm run build
It’s not that hard, but you do need git and npm.)
In short: the quick and easy way is to download the zip file, extract it somewhere, then select that folder where you’ve extracted it with Chrome’s “load unpacked”.
“Load unpacked” is meant for developers testing not-yet-published extensions, and I mentioned it above to describe what I did in order to test that the extension works in Chrome. You can load it this way too, if you want. But I might as well pack it for you, here [EDIT: This link is now outdated. Use the link above to download the extension as a zip file.] You can download that file, and (after turning developer mode on!), drag and drop it onto the extensions page. That gives what’s effectively the same result as loading it as an unpacked extension, except that you don’t need to unzip the file first.
If someone wants to publish this in the Chrome Web Store, (or the equivalent for another browser), that’s fine by me, but I don’t particularly want the burden of doing it myself. But loading it this way in “developer mode” should be fine.