wind chimes

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.
Merlin
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By: mbeasl1
Users: 111 ▲ 5
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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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 Elliott Cost, 2021-09-29
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Safety
Risk impact

wind chimes is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install wind chimes if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

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

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