New browser extensions for Chrome

Google has introduced a new Application Programming Interface (API) for the Chrome extensions. Starting from June 2024, only extensions that support the new API will remain functional. The code for the "Add to Ninja" and "Bookmark All Tabs" Chrome extensions has been completely rewritten to comply with the new API. The updated extensions are now available in the Chrome Web Store.

By default installed extensions are automatically updated in Chrome. The new version number for both the "Add to Ninja" and "Bookmark All Tabs" extensions is 3.0.0.0. To verify the version number, right-click on the extension icon on the Chrome toolbar and select "Manage extensions". If you still see the old version number (starting with 1.0.0 or 2.0.0), please manually update the extensions. If you see the version number 3.0.0.0 then no action is required.

The "Add to Ninja" bookmarklet remains unaffected. If you are using it, no action is required.

Preparing for the upcoming Chrome extensions

Google has introduced a new Application Programming Interface (API) for the Chrome extensions. Starting from June 2024, only extensions that support the new API will remain functional. The code for the "Add to Ninja" and "Bookmark All Tabs" Chrome extensions have to be rewritten to comply with the new API. Today's update includes necessary modifications to the Bookmark Ninja code to accommodate these changes in the extensions. The new extensions are also coming soon. Stay tuned for updates!

Google Chrome issue

In the latest Chrome update (version 96.0.4664.45) on Windows when full page reload happens a blank page shows up for a moment very frequently. Previous Chrome versions didn't have this issue, full page reload happened smoothly without seeing a blank page.

Unfortunately this Chrome issue affects Bookmark Ninja, too. When you switch between the Tabs on the Dashboard or select/deselect the tags on the My Bookmarks page you will see a blank page for a moment before the page is refreshed.

Other browsers work fine. Even Chrome on Mac is ok.

I've reported the issue to Google. Let's hope they will fix it in the next Chrome build.

New "Bookmark All Tabs" browser extension

The "Bookmark All Tabs" browser extension has been updated in both the Google Chrome Web Store and the Mozilla Add-Ons Store.

The new version (2.0.0.1) contains a bugfix for the "Request-URI Too Long" error message that occurred sometimes when there was a large number of open tabs in the browser. From now you can bookmark unlimited number of tabs without any problem.

If you have the automatic extension update set in your browser then the extension will be updated automatically if not then please update it manually.

You can learn more about the "Bookmark All Tabs" extension in this blog post.