BBO Helper

Adds functionally to Bridge Base Online (BBO) website
What is BBO Helper?
BBO Helper is a Chrome extension designed to improve your experience on Bridge Base Online. It provides a variety of features including double dummy table, auction and play timing, portable bridge notation exporting, automatic alerts, chat window enhancements, and ACBL player real names. It also offers advanced traveller details, session HTML creation, and field strength estimation. The BBO Helper revolutionizes your BBO gaming experience, offering fundamental improvements and added functionality.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 1.4.11 (Last updated: 2024-09-12)
Creation date: 2021-12-18
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • clipboardWrite
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Host permissions:
  • https://webutil.bridgebase.com/*
  • https://dds.bridgewebs.com/bsol2/*
  • https://dds.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bsol2/*
Size: 1.96M

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BBO Helper (v1.4.11)
5.00 (2) 220
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

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Adds functionally to Bridge Base Online (BBO) website. Adds double dummy table, shows auction and play timing, cleanly copies boards to the clipboard, export boards as PBN, automates common alerts, provides more detailed travellers, and more.

Feature Summary:

• Double dummy display embedded in History pane and standalone BBO Hand Viewer. Includes 5×4 double dummy table, par score, and par contract(s). Plus quick access to John Goacher’s online double dummy solver.

• See auction and card playing timing during play, review it later, and export it with PBN files.

• Export hands in Portable Bridge Notation (PBN) format for an entire session or a single board. Output includes auction, card play, timing information, double dummy contracts, and more.

• Automatic Alerts for opening bids and many common situations, for example, forcing notrump.

•Chat Window improvements, including automatic suit symbol substitution for bids, cards, and suits, ability to set and reuse a greeting, and seat based BBO handle substitutions (!w, !n, !e, and !t)

• Copy-and-Paste HTML for boards with many display options, including timing and board rotation. Paste into e-mail, Microsoft Word, etc just as you would expect. Or paste text of HTML into a website development tool.

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User reviews

by John Goacher, 2024-10-10

by Fangqing Yuan, 2024-09-02
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Extension safety

Risk impact

BBO Helper requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

BBO Helper is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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