Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor. Watch this video to get a feel for how it works: Keyboard shortcuts Navigating history H:Go back in history L:Go forward in history Manipulating tabs K, gt:Go one tab right J, gT:Go one tab…
In our blog post Deprecating and removing Web SQL, we promised a replacement for Web SQL based on SQLite. The SQLite Wasm library with the Origin Private File System persistence backend is our fulfillment of this promise.# About SQLiteSQLite is a popular, open-source, lightweight, embedded relational database management system. Many developers use it to store…
Reflections on the benefits of tweaking an existing app, instead of starting from scratch. In a previous post I’ve written about why browser extensions are an amazing platform for customizing existing software. Because the browser DOM can be hacked in open-ended ways, it’s possible to build extensions that modify the behavior of an app in…
