{"id":81,"date":"2009-12-07T15:40:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/?p=81"},"modified":"2020-06-02T00:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:48:04","slug":"chrome-extension-modding-and-its-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/81\/chrome-extension-modding-and-its-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Extension Modding and Its Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Chrome considerably more over the past few weeks, and with the addition of [developer-only build] extensions, Firefox may gather more dust than I expected. I just tweaked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromeextensions.org\/alerts-updates\/google-reader-checker\/\">Google Reader Checker extension<\/a> to fix a weakness it has: when you visit the Google Reader site, the new-items badge notification does not update to reflect the fact that you&#8217;ve probably now read the new feed items; instead, it waits until the checking time interval expires before checking again. This was easy to fix: just one line of code put in the proper place, and now when I click the badge to read the new feeds, it erases the new-items count.<\/p>\n<p>As far as why my loyalty is shifting from Firefox to Chrome, the simple fact is that Chrome gives a snappier (and thus, better) experience: opening and closing tabs is <em>instantaneous<\/em>, scrolling pages is more tightly tied to the physical action of spinning the middle mouse button, and various websites with heavy JavaScript\u00a0just respond faster. If I could get the Omnibar to work exactly like the Awesomebar does in Firefox, there would likely be no going back (though, of course, Firebug wins for any web development needs!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Chrome considerably more over the past few weeks, and with the addition of [developer-only build] extensions, Firefox may gather more dust than I expected. I just tweaked the Google Reader Checker extension to fix a weakness it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/81\/chrome-extension-modding-and-its-speed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}