Fav

Fav Bookmark Manager
What is Fav?
Fav is a free and open source Chrome extension that serves as a bookmark manager. It allows you to quickly add, tag, filter, and share bookmarks across various devices. Fav backs up your bookmarks to Github Gist, ensuring easy backup and restore capabilities.

Extension stats

Users: 51 ▼ -4
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 2.0.1 (Last updated: 2020-06-04)
Creation date: 2020-04-20
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
  • https://*.github.com/*
Size: 1.36M

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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Fav is an open source bookmark manager that backs up your bookmarks to Github Gist.

Quickly Add Bookmarks: Fav prefills the site you are on whenever you are adding a bookmark, letting you add a bookmark in just two clicks.

Tagging and Filtering: Fav lets you tag your bookmarks and filter by tag or search for the bookmark by name or by tag later.

Keep Bookmarks in Sync: Fav synchronizes with Github Gist so you can quickly backup and restore bookmarks to various machines.

Sharing: Fav also lets you share a collection of bookmarks. Give the GistID to a collection you created to someone else and they will be able to open and view in in Fav on their browser. Whenever you make changes to the collection they will automatically receive updates.

Free and Open Source: Fav is Free and open source. You can find links to the source code on our website.

User reviews

You can sync bookmarks to a github gist! Super cool for sharing bookmarks across a team!
by Garey Simpson, 2019-05-28
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Extension safety

Risk impact

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

Risk likelihood

Fav has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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