Comic Text

Replaces the built-in Chrome tooltip to enable easier reading of the mouseover title-text for popular webcomics, such as xkcd.

Comic Text: Chrome Extension for Easier Webcomic Reading

Comic Text is a Chrome extension designed for fans of popular webcomics, such as xkcd. This tool replaces the built-in Chrome tooltips, allowing for easy reading of mouseover title text. Comic Text keeps the tooltip visible as long as your cursor remains over the image, avoiding the default Chrome behavior where tooltips disappear after about 5 seconds. The extension is customizable and can be adapted to work on your favorite comic websites. Source code for the extension is available on Github for review.

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By: David Mills

Users: 467

Rating: 4.64

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Version: 3.0.0 (Last updated: 2024-02-21)

Creation date: 2018-08-31

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Size: 30.79K

Email: co*****@millz.com

Ranking

# 41,434 ▲ 325

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#2325 in Accessibility ▲ 21 #2 in comic keyword 12 #164 in text-to-image keyword 11 ▲ #201 in modify keyword 31 ▼ 3

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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The source code for this extension is available on Github.

  https://github.com/dmillz/Comic-Text

NOTE: There is no way for me to respond to questions posted in the comments here in the Chrome Web Store. If you have a question, please contact me on Github instead:

  https://github.com/dmillz/Comic-Text/issues

What is Comic Text?

Comic Text is a Chrome extension that seamlessly replaces the built-in Chrome tooltip to enable easier reading of the mouseover title-text for popular web comics, such as xkcd.

New! Comic Text is now capable of scanning the entire page and replacing tooltips for any page element, not just images. Turn on the option by accessing the Comic Text extension options ([Puzzle Piece Icon] > Comic Text [3-dot menu] > Options)

User reviews

I wanted to use this to copy the content of the tooltips that appear (not on images but on links), and it works, but it's a bit cumbersome as right-clicking makes the tooltip disappear when showing the right-click menu, making it impossible to carry this action with the mouse alone (like when copying normal text) and requiring to use a keyboard shortcut like CTRL+C for it. Otherwise, excellent addon.