wind chimes

A breeze of packets blowing through chimes
What is wind chimes?
Wind Chimes is a playful experiment that converts network traffic into chime sounds, making your web browsing experience feel more material and living.

Extension stats

By: mbeasl1
Users: 90 ▲ 2
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 0.4 (Last updated: 2021-12-28)
Creation date: 2021-09-29
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • webRequest
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • http://*/
  • https://*/
Size: 7.00M

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Extension summary

This extension is playful experiment to make your experience of the web more tactile. As you browse with the extension enabled, it utilizes the network traffic between your browser and servers on the web, sonifying them as they happen. Each server response gets converted into a chime sound, the bigger the response (e.g. images, video) the deeper the chime. The end result makes the web feel more material and living.

User reviews

Literally changes the way you think about the web! Thank you for this beautiful software Mark!
by Elliott Cost, 2021-09-29
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Extension safety

Risk impact

wind chimes requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

wind chimes has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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