Chrome extension to add a "search" link when browsing logged out Lemmy instances

RedKrieg@lemmy.redkrieg.com to Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world – 44 points – GitHub - RedKrieg/home-lemmy-helper: Adds a 'Search' link to Lemmy communities on servers where you are not logged in.
github.com

I've been annoyed by the "copy !communityname@server.host to your instance's search" aspect of joining new communities. To make this more streamlined I created this extension to add a "Search on [myhomeinstance]" button on community pages. It's currently submitted for approval in the chrome web store, which could take a few days, but you should be able to install it as an unpacked extension in developer mode today. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions.

22

You are viewing a single comment
View all comments

please explain how to install this to a guy with fat thumbs and no idea what he's doing. do i just copy the folder or something? and if so, where to? thanks in advance. seems like a fantastic tool

Until it's approved in the web store, you have to:

  1. Download the extension files from github.
  2. Open chrome://extensions/
  3. Click "Load unpacked"
  4. Navigate to the folder that contains "manifest.json"
  5. Click "Select"
  6. Open the extension options to set your home instance (default is lemmy.world)

Oh, you have to enable developer mode on the extensions page to "Load unpacked"