Following Bookmarks

Automatically updates bookmarks so that they follow your reading (when you click the starburst).

What is Following Bookmarks?

Following Bookmarks is a Chrome extension that allows you to bookmark a site and have that bookmark update as you browse. It automatically follows your reading and updates the bookmark so you can easily track your progress.

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By: https://www.gible.net

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Users: 33 ▼ -1

Rating: 4.00 (7)

Version: 0.4 (Last updated: 2012-12-05)

Creation date: 2012-12-05

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

bookmarks
tabs

Size: 11.13K

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 87209 ▼ 849

Other rankings

#6427 in Social Networking ▼ 22 #154 in bookmarks keyword 43 ▲ 18 #239 in bookmark keyword 33 ▲ 56

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Summary

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Allows you to bookmark a site and have that bookmark update as you browse, e.g. as you read through a blog or ebook.

The unfilled starburst shows when you visit any bookmarked site. Clicking it turns on following/updating and fills the starburst yellow (just like the bookmark star), clicking again, or closing the tab, turns it off.

While following is enabled the starburst will flash twice each time the bookmark is updated.

The following/updating behaviour is not persistent, you need to enable it each time you return to the bookmarked site.

KNOWN BUG: The regular bookmark star will not show filled yellow even though the page is bookmarked (See screenshot). If you know how to fix this without forcing a page reload, please email me.

As always, refresh relevant pages after updating.

New in v0.4: Added workaround for http://crbug.com/86449 that was causing a critical failure.

User reviews

Worked perfectly, but today it stopped working, does anyone have a similar issue, the following icon does not show up in omni bar anymore

Charlie Wu, 2012-09-11

1. I have to visit this web page, then close out of Chrome and reopen it just to activate it. Always available would be so much better. 2. Updates title with URL, but usually the title needs to stay the same, IE viewing picture galleries. AN option to choose one or both would be nice 3. Perhaps a redesign to update URLS worth a click, rather than need to remember to turn on and off.

Kevin Stern, 2012-09-01

Two features I would like to see: 1. A prompt saying which bookmark it will update. I am concerned about false positives, particularly when I have multiple bookmarks for one site (like a forum). 2. Maybe instead of constantly updating (following), just have the bookmark update once for each time you press the star button.

A Google user, 2012-06-10

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Safety

Risk impact

Following Bookmarks may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.