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It's crazy (to me) that people will install extensions like this. Seems like there's very little advantage over just keeping two windows open, and who knows wh

It's crazy (to me) that people will install extensions like this. Seems like there's very little advantage over just keeping two windows open, and who knows what else the extension could be doing without telling you.

hannasanarion 8y ago
Some people still haven't heard the gospel of Tiling WMs, I guess.
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mattigames 8y ago
This extension only ask permission for youtube.com and repl.it so any "potential malicious damage" is limited to those 2 sites. The code of the extension itself is pretty readable, you can open the Chrome developer console and check out yourself what it does. About the tiling manager: I tried dozens of configurations and it doesn't come close to this, specially due the lack of mouse-wheel zooming feature.
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- mercer 8y ago
  > This extension only ask permission for youtube.com and repl.it so any "potential malicious damage" is limited to those 2 sites That's not true. It also asks for the ability to 'read your browser history' and to 'communicate with cooperating websites'. Furthermore, as I understand it, the extension can easily be updated in the background to do stuff that it didn't do when you looked at the code and installed it. I imagine one of those things might be uploading your browser history to a 'cooperating website'. Correct me if I'm wrong though!
mattigames 8y ago
I think it's specially useful for small laptop screens, this is how it looks trying to have 2 windows open at the same time on Windows 10 (1280 x 800): https://i.imgur.com/vCWuoYA.png https://i.imgur.com/vCWuoYA.png - Code is too small to be readable by some (this extension allows zooming with mouse-wheel and pinch-to-zoom) - Stacking console under makes it so you can only see 15 lines of code at time (unlike the 30 you get without stacking) - A lot of horizontal space is wasted on scroll-bars, the edge of chrome and a few other elements

hannasanarion 8y ago

Some people still haven't heard the gospel of Tiling WMs, I guess.

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mattigames 8y ago

This extension only ask permission for youtube.com and repl.it so any "potential malicious damage" is limited to those 2 sites. The code of the extension itself is pretty readable, you can open the Chrome developer console and check out yourself what it does. About the tiling manager: I tried dozens of configurations and it doesn't come close to this, specially due the lack of mouse-wheel zooming feature.

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mercer 8y ago
> This extension only ask permission for youtube.com and repl.it so any "potential malicious damage" is limited to those 2 sites That's not true. It also asks for the ability to 'read your browser history' and to 'communicate with cooperating websites'. Furthermore, as I understand it, the extension can easily be updated in the background to do stuff that it didn't do when you looked at the code and installed it. I imagine one of those things might be uploading your browser history to a 'cooperating website'. Correct me if I'm wrong though!

mattigames 8y ago

I think it's specially useful for small laptop screens, this is how it looks trying to have 2 windows open at the same time on Windows 10 (1280 x 800): https://i.imgur.com/vCWuoYA.png https://i.imgur.com/vCWuoYA.png - Code is too small to be readable by some (this extension allows zooming with mouse-wheel and pinch-to-zoom) - Stacking console under makes it so you can only see 15 lines of code at time (unlike the 30 you get without stacking) - A lot of horizontal space is wasted on scroll-bars, the edge of chrome and a few other elements