Chess.com's New Open Source Browser Extension

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In addition to Chess.com’s other big announcements today (new site launched and bughouse), we are also launching our first beta version of the open source browser extension! The goal is to allow any developer to add new features and customization to Chess.com, beyond what is done on the main site (for power users, etc). Sorry for the ugly screenshot - just showing you what can be done! tongue.png

You can see the extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chess-browser-extension/fcfojodfingmafbdmlekaaoogcfpjegg

And join the GitHub project here: https://github.com/ChessCom/browser-extension

A big thanks to the developers, and to you, Chess.com community, for your support!

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Why did you create a forum and a blog on this topic?

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     Do you know who he is?Undecided        The reason I ask is because your not too familiar with the rules. Your not sapose to promote your friends to "Super Admin" if they have a "free" account. Rhamel use to do that. But Frodo puts people in groups without their permission. Ask Kaynight, Nikprit, a few others.Surprised Did you promote him to Super Admin when he was "NotMeAgain2"?  Oh nevermind, I'm sure THAT can be checked and you can erase that from your notes now.Wink                                                            Frodo22

would you mind making me a superadmin in πολιτική club (politike) again, so I can invite members and make it active. Thanks

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Is it for Chrome only?

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To be honest, I was very excited until I saw the permissions the extension is asking. I don't want to give a chess game extension the permission to read all of my browser history. Why does it need "Read your browser history" permission? 

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What am I missing here?

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𝓔𝔁𝓬𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓳𝓸𝓫 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝔀 𝓫𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓼𝓮𝓻 𝓮𝔁𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝔀 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓲𝓶𝓹𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓶𝓪𝔃𝓲𝓷𝓰! 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓸 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬!




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That seems promising

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Seems to work good for customizing colors

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We are working to improve designs. And I will check on permissions...

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And yes, for Chrome only right now. Working on FF and safari...

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why is bughouse not working tho! i can't seem to get any games started...

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verygoodman918 wrote:

why is bughouse not working tho! i can't seem to get any games started...

 

Please contact support with any issues you're having!

https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/emails/new

 

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 This is fantastic, members can play with the colors to create their own theme just for themselves; some of the custom themes on the old site were hard to look at when visiting profiles!

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HovMan wrote:

To be honest, I was very excited until I saw the permissions the extension is asking. I don't want to give a chess game extension the permission to read all of my browser history. Why does it need "Read your browser history" permission? 

 

Hi there, this is a false alarm set by Chrome. It is basically a blanket term meaning that we can interact with the Chess.com tabs that you have open so you can use the features to customize your personal experience.

 

Here is an explanation of how the message you are seeing is generated:

 

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-extensions/au_qakYSWkk

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